I live in a major city with cable internet everywhere along with fiber in some areas (unfortunately not mine), but I’ve had multiple instances of carriers’ salespeople knock on my door selling 5G home internet service.

The reason this doesn’t make sense to me is 5G will always have a much higher latency than any wired alternative — it really only makes sense to sell this stuff in rural areas without the infrastructure. What’s more is the most recent carrier has a reputation for extraordinary coverage but their network is CDMA so their network speed is one of the worst in the city.

Wouldn’t it make more sense to sell this stuff elsewhere?

  • Ghostalmedia
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    142 months ago

    Because people buy it.

    Most folks are not as tech savvy as the people on Lemmy.

    Most people don’t know the difference between cable, fiber, DSL, or wireless. It’s just “internet.”

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Heh. In fairness, some of those people check their email every single Tuesday, and have no idea what kind of speeds they’re missing out on.

      • Ghostalmedia
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        92 months ago

        True. Tuesday is when the email mail comes in big cities.

    • d00phy
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      32 months ago

      To my step-kids, it’s all “WiFi.” Even on their phone driving down the highway, I’ll hear, “this WiFi sucks!”

    • @[email protected]OP
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      12 months ago

      You’ve got a point. I recently set up a modem and router for friends and they were shocked when I told them they have a local network that their devices can talk to each other on. They thought WiFi == Internet.