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"With this technology, it's conceivable that 5G wireless could displace both cable and DSL connections within a few years, as is claimed in the presentation."

A few years?! This statement should give landline data providers, like Cox and Comcast, some serious pause.

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Except for the part where you need an huge array of transmitters with backbone bandwidth equal or greater the number of devices they may be serving simultaneously.

In which case those companies just start doing fiber installs to wireless stations, not houses, at roughly the same density.

Or just piggyback an antenna into the hardware otherwise installed at each consumer location. There was a theory almost a decade ago that Google would do something like that on top of all the 'dark fiber' it was buying up at the time.

Why, their wireless counterparts will surely buy spectrum or what not to make happen during a 20yr adoption cycle in the US.

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