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The title seems to not include that this is about 5G. The next question then is how many gamers really use mobile broadband in the US? Ericsson making the claim that people are willing to pay more for low latency might be the case in the Nordics where uncapped mobile broadband starts from 3 euros/m and fiber is not always available.

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The telephone companies in the US have been pretty aggressively lobbying to drop universal service mandates. From what I can tell, they spent the last few decades deferring maintenance and lining executive pockets. Now they don't want to pay for the deferred maintenance.

Anyway, one argument they make is that people can use 5G for their home broadband. From what I've seen, that doesn't actually work in practice. Even though there are cell towers, once the telcos pull out, there's nothing to plug the cell tower into, so you end up with lots of 5G bars, but 2G speeds. Either way, it's a good story, and it helps extract more profits.

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