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Originally Posted by SKIMAN
here's my 2 cents .having been in the field for 41 years placing what ever the product was at the time unless t moble is placing the fiber them selves ,digging up all the yards and placing new inner duct ,pulling in new fiber,new nodies. there getting it wholesale from , century link,comcast or who ever is all ready in your area and using there system.don't be hoodwinked by there bs....
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Technically, that's not what is happening. T-Mobile is NOT selling wired/fiber/cable service for their home internet offering. They are selling internet via cellular service, and are delivering it on brand new infrastructure that they are building themselves.
This is a significant change in internet service delivery. Until now, high speed delivery of internet service over cellular connections was often constrained by the bandwidth capacity of the early cellular networks. The introduction of 5G technology vastly increases both speed and bandwidth capacity of cellular networks. T-Mobile is betting they can switch from cable systems to over-the-air (wireless/radio/cellular) systems and continue to grow their business with new offerings.
And, fortunately, there is much more competition among the "phone" companies than between the cable companies (I won't go into a long rant about how governments have created protected monopolies for cable systems.) The increased competition means that the cellular phone companies are seeing the light of what their customers want and are starting to come around with things like "contract free" and more competitive pricing. (The T-Mobile Home Internet offering has both of those features.) I'll be delighted when I no longer have to do the yearly beg-for-a-discount" ritual from my cable/internet company.