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Where are you such that it's attractive and that you already use a 4G router? In the US at least cellular internet, wether 4G or 5G, is still cost prohibitive due the high cost data ($/GB).

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US prices are a joke and are multiple times higher than in other places, e.g. Poland - you can get 50GB/month for 12$. Even better there is special promotion now and it's half of it for 6 months .. 6$/50GB. On top of that this is not sth like 12-months contract and you can cancel it any time.

At the same time I am living in Bay Area paying close to 100$ to Comcast for landline connection because my discount promotion has expired and AT&T is not providing service to my address.

https://www.play.pl/resources/pdf/2018/Cennik-Oferty-Play-NE...

Wow maybe Poland don't have a "communications commission" whose primary task is to protect telco monopolies?

In fairness almost everything is cheaper in Poland. Even compared to Europe.

I think 4G is really cheap all around Eastern Europe. F.i. in Lithuania we have unlimited 4G for 18.90eur/month

> ”Where are you such that it's attractive and that you already use a 4G router?”

London, UK. I pay £20/month (~ USD $25) for SIM-only, unlimited data wireless broadband on the Three network. 12 month contract, though you can pay a bit more for 30-day. Got a Huawei MiFi router (tiny credit-card size thing) on Amazon for £69.

Typically gets around 40 Mbps, sometimes a bit less at peak times. But I think the speed is limited by the cheap router as I’ve seen up to 105 Mbps if I put the SIM in my iPhone!

Here in the UK, Three offer unlimited 4G data for £22/mo ($27). That's a very compelling alternative to fixed broadband for a lot of people; it's going to get a lot more compelling with the rollout of 5G.

http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Devices/Huawei/E5573bs-322_4...

Some 10 pct of the US doesn't even have access to DSL. https://broadbandnow.com/DSL

A good chunk of the 90% that do have DSL don't have broadband speeds (25/3Mbps) offered to them over DSL.

Yeah and the definition of "broadband" seems to vary with whoever needs to slant the data. I had a hard time finding any "broadband" availability stats that included which definition they used.

It's like percent unemployment.

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