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There is only so much spectrum to go around. Even with tight beams, providing high speed to everyone in a densely populated area is much easier to do with fiber than with any radio-based system.

In many regions this will be serious competition to comcast, but in cities traditional ISPs won't go away in the next 30 years.



Cities are gaining a higher proportion of the population over time too. It's clearly the better market.

Everywhere on Earth is going to get a big bandwidth increase, expect for cities (and places not allowed for political reasons). It's an advancement that will continue to help fewer and fewer people.




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