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Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating (www.spacebar.news)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sounds like cable is just in its natural death throes and will be gone soon. Markets will take care of this too, if we just let them: i.e. don't let cable companies lobby against 5G etc.

They'll still have some role since 5G practically requires fiber optics as its backbone anyway.