On 4/Jan/20 00:06, Andrey Kostin wrote:

Currently /me don't bother switching to wifi in public places bcz LTE provides enough bw for my humble needs.

When I'm in South Africa, same for me, because:

Most hotels, restaurants, shops, and airport lounges still use ADSL. So the wi-fi sucks. If I know that any of these establishments is on fibre (likely because my company services them, or services an ISP that services them), I am happy to use their wi-fi.

On my work mobile, I get 30GB of data per month as per contract. I probably only use 2GB - 3GB of that, both for work and other stuff.

On the other hand, when I am traveling, I have to use wi-fi, even when it's dodgy, because my provider's GSM roaming requires one to sacrifice their grandmother (and no, that 30GB/month plan does not include roaming). Luckily, the hotels I tend to stay at have had great wi-fi, probably explained by how much they cost to stay at :-).

And when the next phone will be released with 4k 120fps camera and 4k display there will be a lot of people (not only kids) who will use it and abuse it all the time for gaming, streaming ,etc.

Agreed.

But I stress "it's the kids" because they don't know or care about how all this works. They just want to stream nonstop, regardless of the cost of data. We, their parents, aren't wired that way because it's us paying for it.

It's not about competition with WiFi, it's just a new thing that is coming. But 5G will take away it's share of fixed users for sure.

I don't think wi-fi and 5G are deliberately in competition - I think that competition is just a natural evolution of where the state-of-the-art is. Kind of like cutting the linear TV cord in favour of a VoD streaming service.

When first iphone was released it was pretty much useless toy because all apps were bound to Internet and cell networks were you know where at that time with public WiFi only starting to take off. But now we can't live without services which are novadays considered as basic and then were fancy technology break-outs for geeks.

Agreed, but also 802.11ac/ax are miles ahead of 802.11a/b/g/n, in a world where premises (commercial and private) have tons more fibre than they did when the iPhone launched in 2007.

Mark.