That's exactly what I was thinking reading this thread. Fiber isn't likely to be surpassed by anything else anytime soon, but the need for having any kind of a traditional wired connection to the home could very well disappear in the not too distant future. Fiber is still going to be needed to make the 5G, 6G or whatever technologies work, but if every device has it's own unlimited 5G wireless connection, not many people are going to feel the need to pay for home connection. But whether that can actually be made to work (in both a practical and technical sense) remains to be seen.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 8:28 AM Gino A. Villarini <g...@aeronetpr.com> wrote: > Fiber is future proof but not human proof.. > > > > As the users continue to gravitate more to handheld devices, the actual > value of fiber as a last mile connection for the end user is a sliding > graph towards 0. > > > > Wireless connectivity will continue expand in different iterations like > 5G, 6G and other upcoming technologies like LTTH and LTTD (LEO to the home > and LEO to the Device). <- I just coined both terms! > > > > *Gino* > *Villarini *Founder/President > @gvillarini > t: 787.273.4143 Ext. 204 > m: > [image: aeronet-logo] <http://www.aeronetpr.com/> [image: inc500] > <https://www.inc.com/profile/aeronet> [image: fb-logo] > <https://www.facebook.com/aeronetpr/> [image: insta-logo] > <https://www.instagram.com/aeronetpr/?hl=en> [image: in-logo] > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/aeronet-broadband-corp> [image: > tw-logo] > <https://twitter.com/AeroNetPR?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor> > [image: yt-logo] > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr2Q9WBrAYVm3Fn970Jd6VA> > www.aeronetpr.com | Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, PR 00968 > > *From: *AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> on behalf of Matt Hoppes < > mattli...@rivervalleyinternet.net> > *Reply-To: *AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> > *Date: *Sunday, January 19, 2020 at 10:30 PM > *To: *"af@af.afmug.com" <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject: *[AFMUG] The Future > > > > I don’t know why, but this evening got me thinking about broadband > delivery over the past 30 years and the future of broadband. > > First we had nothing, then along came dial-up and that was amazing and > many companies sprung up offering the service. Giants like AOL and Prodigy. > > Then DSL and Cable came along as well as wireless and dial-up has all but > died. > > Now DSL is basically dead, cable and wireless have gone through several > iterations and we are seeing a push to fiber. > > What’s the possibility in the next 10 years cable and wireless will be > dead technologies with fiber at the fore front? Possibly. > > But then..... is fiber really future proof? We are talking about investing > hundreds of millions into fiber infrastructure, because it’s “the future”. > But is it? > > So far every technology delivery mechanism to date has become obsolete in > as little as 6-10 years. > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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