The Internet Game Keeps Expanding

There are a lot of changes taking place. I do my best to chronicle them as they are unfolding.

The entertainment industry is changing. Underneath we have the telecommunications. This is being seen in both television and Internet. Cable, satellite, and mobile companies are all vying for the business.

T-Mobile is trying to put itself in position to pull it a lot of business. The company is testing an upgrade of service in Phoenix.


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The Internet Game Keeps Expanding

As stated in the past, it could be that broadcast television is surviving simply due to the Baby Boomers.

The younger generations are not traditional television watchers. We are more than 15 years into the first cord cutting phase. This was when people opted out of cable, preferring to go Internet only. Due to the expanded offerings via this medium, many people found it sufficient.

Of course, the savings was significant.

Since the same companies were being dealt with, over time, the cost of Internet went up. It is to the point where people are nOW paying what cable television use to charge. Factor in the streaming applications that many people subscribe to and we see how this became an expensive proposition.

Enter cord cutting 2.0.

This is the shift away from the traditional internet operators, mostly the cable companies, opting for an alternate service. Some are switching to satellite, although that is not an inexpensive option.

One area that might be gaining some traction is mobile carrier. While they offer 5G through their phones, a lot are getting into the home internet game.

T-Mobile appears to be looking to make a dent in this sector of the market.

T-Mobile is pushing the boundaries of home internet with a new pilot program in Phoenix, Arizona, offering customers the chance to experience blazing-fast speeds with mmWave 5G technology. This invite-only trial, which began on October 21st, provides a glimpse into the future of home internet, with speeds potentially surpassing those of traditional wired connections, according to a report from The Mobile Report.

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This could be good news depending upon how things evolve. Many markets are starting to see competition, with many forms of Internet service being provided.

We can expect a pricing war to kick off. These corporations can get very aggressive when they want to add new customers. The stakes are high and these companies can be relentless.

Gone might be the days were a town or city had two choices, both of whom priced their services with a couple of dollars of each other.

The New Internet

We are only a couple years away from an entire new Internet. This is something that people are going to realize very soon.

Ultimately, the Internet is not going to be something for people. The overwhelming majority of the traffic will be machines. AI agents are going to take over to a large degree.

That said, the service is still crucial. Part of the "global brain" is people being able to access information whenever it is needed. There is also the fact that the digital world is expanding. We are not only going to see robots but also virtual reality (ultimately the Metaverse) becoming commonplace.

All of this means we require more advanced services.

From the mobile perspective, 6G is likely to emerge towards the end of this decade. We tend to have 10 year cycles with that. The 5G service is still being rolled out. China, earlier this year, launched the first 6G satellite.

And on it goes.

Consider the fact that, by around 2040, we will be looking at 7G (whatever that might look like).

This is how telecommunication is progressing.

All layers of the stack have to evolve. Telecommunications is one of those areas.

Fortunately, there are a lot of players getting involved. We will see how the rest of the decade unfolds. My guess is we see services expanding with a price war in many areas kicking off.


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I do wish to see a shake on the Telco monopoly and really see other companies like Starlink come with new innovations to make it easier and cheaper to connect.

The same thing as for shaking the way the internet becomes the essential part of society.

I think we have somewhat stalled as wearable computing hasn't pick up, same with living room computing (couch computing). Same thing with autos, home automation even watch computing.

Although internet enabled devices has become more prevalent, many of the devices are kidnapped into propietary platforms. Whenever it's Alexa, Nest, Chatgpt, or Android enabled TV or watch. Still hard to connect everything with anything like any network.

Maybe this could be solved soon, but having a homogenic network has been the long time goal of a fully automated home. Same thing with the car or your watch.

It is all web 2.0. The networks are individual, controlled by centralized companies. That is where Web 3.0 has a chance to change things...if we build it. Alas, most are simply focused upon green candles.

And you are right about many of the technologies not being as advertised.

At one point I would have agreed with you (during the ICO era), but now, I see many startups on web 3 struggling for cash and goals being all over the place. Web 3 suffers the same effect of being silos of each other. That's why each has their own wallets, their own marketplaces, their own protocols, etc. And is fine, that's just how tech is.

But for an IoT network where your TV talk to your phone to your kitchen and to your toilet. I still think a lot of piping needs to happen behind while still make it manufacturer independent.

Also cutting the dependence of the phone is key, to have a cloud computer that operates outside of a physicial hardware, perhaps on the cloud and communicates through all these devices from, home, wearables or vehicle on a post-app era.

Funding is always a problem. Of course, a large part of that stems from the fact that people do not have business sense to run these companies. Few develop plans to monetize and generate revenue streams. We see the same thing on Hive. People attack if someone is building something to make money.

We see advancement coming when the big boys enter. Notice how they get things done. But then crypto people rail against that.

As for the rail, yes infrastructure is needed, especially open source. That takes time to build and is not sexy. Sadly, that is woefully understaffed in terms of developers. It simply isnt a draw to many.

Also is not only open source, but the fact that we don't build the devices. Your kitchen like it or not it's Haier and your TV is Sony and your AC is LG and your washing machine is whirlpool. So even if the tech is out there like MQTT COAP IEET etc. The manufacturers need to convey to them and then the communication layer needs to be somewhat easy to understand for the developer.

Is funny, ever since I got into Linux in the 2000 there has been code to control your toaster or coffee machine. With Arduino and Raspberry Pi these type of projects explode. However unless you have electrical engineering understanding and are not afraid to sutter wires into your dish washer (avoiding your wife panic look as well), hacking your home electronics has been done with relative small and limited success.

I have gone that path in the past to hack my AC and be able to shoot commands into their infrared receivers from a wifi enabled device linked to my home virtual private network. And have the AC cool my room before I get home. The result was unfortunately limited.

But it gave me a sense on how complicated is to achieve this things as even an open source OS like Android lack some basic networking stack natively. To this day, try to share files between your phone and your tablet or android TV and you will see is not as seamless as you think. Let alone, remote control it or login from a remote device.

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