AT&T announces 5G will be like home internet, pay more for faster speeds.

[AxeI]

Automatic cars won't get nearly widespread enough to require communicating with one another before the next half of the century, and upgrading road signals and lights to be "smart" would be colossal work when we should be moving away from individual transportation in the first place.

We should be moving towards making things more reliable and durable, not more unnecessarily complex for the sake of feeling like we live in some futuristic era, through systems that are by and large gimmicky.

[CyclonatorZ]

Yes to all that - especially the last part. We have a public ISP in my town, and the base package is better than most internet in the country. We even have 1 gigabit.

[Glitchvid]

I'll always rep municipal fiber. In Utah, we have UTOPIA, which is a city-funded fiber infrastructure company. Cities pledge funds, then the fiber network gets build out to the homes.

Any ISP (that is, a company with a connection to the internet at large) can hook up with UTOPIA, meaning we have tens of internet providers in UTOPIA cities. This is proper redundant underground stuff too.

And it's amazingly cheap and fast.
250/250Mbit/s (yes, symmetrical connections) is around $40/Mo.
1/1Gbit/s is around $50/Mo.
10/10Gbit/s is around $250/Mo.

We're really feeling it in cities that haven't signed up, cities like our capital (and where I live), Salt Lake City has passed it up, and then had the gall to sign exclusive contracts and bend over backwards for Google fiber, and that still hasn't expanded to most of Sugarhouse, or above/south of the Avenues. Nor do they plan to, since Google has been mothballing it's fiber expansions.

[Reg]

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