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I have to mention the elephant in the room : many carriers push customers to replace their home wired connection with 4G/5G modems.

These short term gains ruin the game for everyone. Wireless bandwidth is precious.

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Sure, but is anyone (who has an actual choice) actually choosing to do this? From what I can tell, carriers seem to run a lot of really stupid ads and keep the marketing money faucet flowing for a long time before they finally give up.

A dozen of my millennial friends do not have a wired internet connection. Gen Z even more, especially students.

Yes, many people are deciding to use mobile-only connections, suffer through the usual performance degradation when everyone decides to Netflix at once... and also actively "Who needs this?" complain against building out wired infrastructure which would fix this issues en masse.

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