25 Mbps for $40/month? Of course that’s “up to” 25 Mbps, and $60 if you don’t have a Verizon cellphone.
What strikes me is I would never try to sell 25 Mbps service with an indoor DIY install. I know LTE makes everything magic, and maybe they’re using low band instead of mid band spectrum, but if this is targeting rural areas, you can’t count on the celltower being a mile away. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 11:33 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Verizon launches new LTE Home Internet service - CNET They're advertising modest speeds at high prices. If we were selling 5mbps for $60-150/month that might change our model too. It might only take a handful of customers to pay the tower rent, and you might not care if they all had garbage signal. I'd imagine QoS is tied to signal strength (like an airtime based algorithm) and that incentivizes the customer to get higher signal strength because they can see a better speed test result if they get more bars. They might prefer the modem to live in the basement, but if they get a tangibly better outcome by putting it upstairs in the bay window then they might do that. Of course, Clearwire taught us that might also lead to tupperware on the roof. On 7/31/2020 11:53 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: Instead of a professionally installed outdoor “cantenna”, they use an indoor LTE modem, yet somehow it is faster than their previous LTE based service, and has no data cap. https://www.verizonwireless.com/home-services/lte-internet-installed/ Yet when we want to offer faster service, we use high gain outdoor antennas. Either Verizon knows something we don’t, or more likely just like in the early days of DSL, the key to making the service profitable is to eliminate the truck roll and have the customer do an indoor self-install. Oh, and Gizmodo had some quibbles with the new Verizon home Internet service: https://gizmodo.com/read-the-fine-print-on-verizons-new-4g-home-internet-1844562135 From: AF <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Jaime Solorza Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 10:30 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: [AFMUG] Verizon launches new LTE Home Internet service - CNET https://www.cnet.com/news/verizon-launches-new-lte-home-internet-service/
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