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Is ‘Fixed’ 5G a Viable WFH Option?

March 23, 2021

Via: No Jitter

The mobile operators have loaded up on debt — some $95 million in the latest wireless spectrum auction — in pursuit of 5G’s elusive pot of gold. Now they must figure out how to fund that debt and ongoing investments in 5G upgrades — and it’s not going to be via consumer smartphones, since that market is all but saturated in the U.S.

To that end, as I’ve written previously, the carriers have been pursuing private 5G networks and Internet of Things (IoT). Now they’ve added a third primary push: 5G as an option for residential Internet service and work-from-home (WFH) applications. The big questions facing enterprise buyers are how 5G will measure up against existing broadband Internet options and whether it will be a good choice for WFH.

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