Ending 3G Service Sparks Fears of an 'Alarmaggedon'

[hunter]

26. They are advertising 5G heavily in our community as a primary service...

... replacing landlines, cable, and satellite.

Some of our neighbors have already switched.

5G equipment is everywhere -- on streetlights, random poles, the sides of buildings, etc.

My children have moved to places with fast optical fiber connections direct to their homes. I think that was their first criteria in choosing places to live. No optical fiber, no sale.

I'm not sure optical fiber will ever come to our neighborhood. Our neighborhood was built before high speed internet and has cable television, telephone lines, and power lines buried directly in the ground, not in any conduit. Running optical fiber or higher capacity coaxial cable to each house or apartment building would require a lot of digging. Our children live in neighborhoods with overhead utilities. The optical fiber is simply strung on the poles.

There's been a lot of digging in our neighborhood previously to build out the 4G LTE system. The 5G system seems to be branching off of that fiber infrastructure.

Any day now I'm expecting a notice telling me our ancient DSL service will be discontinued.