T-Mobile’s fixed 5G to cover 250M+ with 300 Mbps+, competing with home ISPs

The focus has really become first and foremost upon "making money". Private profit.

The service becomes, if not incidental, then certainly secondary to this.

Consumer and small business Gigabit Internet in the U.S. was a rare oddity, until Google launched its Fibre initiative.

And for Google, this was to move customer engagement and so ads -- their moneymakers. (And neutralizing competitors' barriers to same.) As the Google idealism continued to be actively suffocated, it was not about Fibre, it was about making money.

Across the ISP industry, fiber deployments have been stalling, where they've not outright been declared dormant if not dead. This has been -- to me, at least -- rather observable in the past few to several years.

What's been happening? Companies have been building and building up to cellular radio enhancements, serving simultaneously mobile users but also -- with a single technology and deployment, and one that has also been exempted from "net neutrality" and also somewhat excused from having to explain its "data caps" -- traditional fixed installations.

At the same time, telecommunications companies have been severely neglecting their "legacy" copper line services.

They have decided to move to cellular radio, for all this, and to convince regulators and other public authorities that these deployments meet, or should be allowed to be redefined to "meet", all of their outstanding obligations -- which remain substantial and were granted in return for the monopolies granted to them that have continued to benefit them for so long.

Cellular deployment's cheaper. Especially when you are not required to provide the same / equivalent level of service and capacity. When you have greater authority to manipulate the service and delivery to your own benefit.

And when you exist in an oligopoly and have no fundamental, substantive competition...

You provide enough to avoid losing your position. And the rest is pure profit.

You're making money. The "service" is just a means to that end -- one you make "just good enough" to avoid cutting into said profit.