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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/Jan/20 00:06, Andrey Kostin wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:438b3a39466c8462fa19f810159c8ade@podolsk.ru"><br>
Currently /me don't bother switching to wifi in public places bcz
LTE provides enough bw for my humble needs.
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When I'm in South Africa, same for me, because:<br>
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<li>Most hotels, restaurants, shops, and airport lounges still use
ADSL. So the wi-fi sucks. If I know that any of these
establishments is on fibre (likely because my company services
them, or services an ISP that services them), I am happy to use
their wi-fi.</li>
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<li>On my work mobile, I get 30GB of data per month as per
contract. I probably only use 2GB - 3GB of that, both for work
and other stuff.</li>
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<p>On the other hand, when I am traveling, I have to use wi-fi, even
when it's dodgy, because my provider's GSM roaming requires one to
sacrifice their grandmother (and no, that 30GB/month plan does not
include roaming). Luckily, the hotels I tend to stay at have had
great wi-fi, probably explained by how much they cost to stay at
:-).<br>
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cite="mid:438b3a39466c8462fa19f810159c8ade@podolsk.ru">And when
the next phone will be released with 4k 120fps camera and 4k
display there will be a lot of people (not only kids) who will use
it and abuse it all the time for gaming, streaming ,etc.
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Agreed.<br>
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But I stress "it's the kids" because they don't know or care about
how all this works. They just want to stream nonstop, regardless of
the cost of data. We, their parents, aren't wired that way because
it's us paying for it.<br>
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cite="mid:438b3a39466c8462fa19f810159c8ade@podolsk.ru">It's not
about competition with WiFi, it's just a new thing that is coming.
But 5G will take away it's share of fixed users for sure.
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I don't think wi-fi and 5G are deliberately in competition - I think
that competition is just a natural evolution of where the
state-of-the-art is. Kind of like cutting the linear TV cord in
favour of a VoD streaming service. <br>
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cite="mid:438b3a39466c8462fa19f810159c8ade@podolsk.ru">When first
iphone was released it was pretty much useless toy because all
apps were bound to Internet and cell networks were you know where
at that time with public WiFi only starting to take off. But now
we can't live without services which are novadays considered as
basic and then were fancy technology break-outs for geeks.
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Agreed, but also 802.11ac/ax are miles ahead of 802.11a/b/g/n, in a
world where premises (commercial and private) have tons more fibre
than they did when the iPhone launched in 2007.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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