Do we need AT&T in FWA to compete with T-Mobile & Verizon Wireless?

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[cmorris]

Honestly, I agree with you Sneed.... We don't really need AT&T involved in FWA access... However, it would certainly be a wise business decision for AT&T, in my opinion.... Laying Fiber is ultra expensive, and in some areas of the country, it just doesn't make good sense to make that investment when there are other options would be able to satisfy customers, and provide a solution at a much lower cost.... I think it will happen... We will eventually see AT&T competing in FWA... But for the time being... The company has to work on expansion of their mid-band footprint... 😄

[ThecarwashchannelofnorthernPA]

Yes I do think AT&T needs this because that’s who I currently have as a cell phone provider and it would be nice to have everything under one bill

[TJ-]

Maybe in the limited areas in which they will actually have excess capacity.

[zerocool]

Yes i support FWA on AT&T... call it "I got Randall"

[fredwilliams]

They already do with their B30 product.

[flamesword]

I think AT&T doesn’t need FWA but they should do it. Because Verizon and T-Mobile both already offer it and I’m sure to some consumers that makes AT&T look bad whether they like it or not. Even US cellular has launched a FWA service. Plus like you said I’m sure there’s areas with little to no options/bad service whey AT&T could come in and immediately be the best option. Very little work for lots of profit.

[TechxGremlin]

I mean honestly without them launching at least the combined 80mhz then definitely no. The other part of this is if they do launch it then their mid band isn't heavily rolled out so the FWA will have limited access or I feel people wouldn't have a great experience if they weren't connecting to midband. AT&T coming in last to offer FWA, I believe may put them in at a disadvantage in the minds of the consumers as early things may still have to be worked out or tweaked where Verizon and TMobile may already have small issues under control. And lastly I feel they would have to undercut Verizon and TMobile in price for consumers to even really give it a try. If and when customers did give it a try the network would really need to preform just as good as the other 2 carriers if not better. The other thing is let's say they do offer a great FWA product with the speed and coverage, they gotta hope it's not so good that it pulls customers from their fiber network. IMO I think AT&T should double down on Midband and MMwave rollout before trying to do FWA because they'll need that anyways to really offer FWA. They need to focus on reaching 270-300 million pops by the end of 2023 and by the love of god start adding more small cells to their network especially here in the San Francisco Bay Area market and their MMwave is a dam myth out here. I've found it in one spot. AT&T needs to focus on having the best coverage and offering some of the fastest speeds in the country.

[maxwellcurtis]

I think you uploaded the wrong video. Or am I wrong?

[MrPresident_]

Att fiber is much better and they should stick to that, and improve and focus on cellular 5g coverage

[makaeo]

Not sure if it’s just my experience…but I don’t really see a need to have that additional Wi-Fi channel…so my question is what is the necessity/use case and what specific benefits do we expect to see from this additional channel and where will those benefits be most seen?

I don’t think “need” is the word to use for AT&T FWA. I do want to see them in the competition because it would mean more meaningful competition. As AT&T is focusing on fiber, this may not happen soon, but with all that fiber it makes sense they’ll have enormous capacity on some of their own native towers and that would be available for their possible FWA customers. The question is will this compete with/cannibalize AT&T fiber customers? Because AT&T doesn’t want that. And I would rather have native fiber in most cases as opposed to FWA. If AT&T can juggle all the pins and work out not competing with its own offerings I do see this happening and being meaningful competition.

[Coyote-G]

No AT&T doesn't need FWA they have fiber for home internet access

[JoshPoseyTech]

Sneed posting a video recorded in 2021? haha

[TheWolfHowling]

I’d guess AT&T will offer FWA but they won’t be doing it “nationwide” like Verizon & T-Mobile. It will be used in locations in the rural & suburban fringes where running FTTP or a Copper-Fibre hybrid is not financially viable but they could pay to run a single line to a tower that would serve both their mobile & home customers

[michaelsonger]

my sundial says its 2022, unless sneed is a orthodox tech expert the content seems a little regurgitated