25Mbps? The link shows me "average speeds of 5-12Mbps"
Are they showing us each something different based on where we are? This
is what I see:
On 7/31/2020 1:04 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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.
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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
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