Edit: *good cellphone data service*
What’s the difference between watching Netflix on mobile vs home internet? Why can’t a similar technology of radiowaves or satellite be used?
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Something a lot of the other answers leave out is the bandwidth difference. Phone quality audio is measured in Kilobytes per second, the FCC minimum definition for “broadband” is 250 times larger at 25 Mbps. So a telco can drop in lines to service 2000 telephones but the same infrastructure would struggle trying to provide minimum broadband to more than 10 homes.
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