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Major bus terminals in São Paulo will be equipped with free Wi-Fi provision as part of a wider project to refresh the physical infrastructure of the sites.
Approximately 1.5 million daily users of the 13 terminals included in the connectivity project are expected to benefit from the new service. Passengers will be able to use the service for 60 minutes daily, at an average speed of 10MB.
The roll-out of the gigabit network will be carried out by telecommunications services firm Linktel on behalf of Unitah, the company managing the bus terminals. The implementation is expected to complete in early 2021.
The project marks the first time Internet connectivity is offered in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest urban center. Wi-Fi is already available in some underground and train stations across the city.
More than 7.500 buses in Sao Paulo (about 60% of the fleet) have been equipped with Wi-Fi just before the municipal elections in November 2020.
However, the contract for the Internet connectivity across the city’s bus fleet also included the implementation of a computer in each vehicle. This would in turn enable the roll-out of a monitoring and operational management system with features including the ability to provide real-time updates on bus stops and arrival times to passengers.
According to Brazilian news website UOL, the technology companies competing for the tender to provide the combined service have been caught off-guard with the decision to anticipate the Internet connectivity component of the project, since they had invested about 400,000 reais (US$ 74,000) each to secure the certificates required to roll-out the computers and the system.

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I spend so much of my day driving a web browser that I’ve made it a bit of a mission in life to find things that make my browser experience better and smoother. I’ve tested all sorts of productivity extensions, from tab managers to password managers to note-taking apps.
They really help to make my browsing experience better and smoother.

But there’s a new scourge plaguing the internet — cookie banners and popups.
I hate these things. I doubly hate them when they force me to have to click an option rather than just ignore them. Sure, I know that they are in response to EU regulations, and that website owners had little choice but to implement something like this, but everything about “cookie banners” is terrible.
But we have to make the most of what we have.
Right now, I sort of randomly jab at the banners and popups. I’m not really all that concerned about cookies, and just want to get on with my day.
Dealing with these cookie notifications has become a tax I pay to use the internet.

Until now.
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Enter Ninja Cookie, a browser extension that that automatically removes cookie banners by rejecting non-essential cookies.
Yup, it’s that simple.
I hadn’t realized how much time and effort I spent dealing with these popups. It’s a bit like how I felt after subscribing to YouTube Premium. I just hadn’t comprehended how much effort I was putting into skipping ads (and yes, I know I could have used an ad blocker, but I’m choosing to support content creators).
I’ve tried a lot of productivity extensions, but I’m convinced that this is the best. It takes an annoying speed bump and removes it. 
If it messes up a site in a bad way — I’ve not seen that happen, but it might — there’s the ability to disable it for a tab. Alternatively, there’s also the ability to create custom rules, although I’ve not investigated that feature yet.
In general use, it seems great. I’ve not seen a cookie banner or popup since installing it. However, when I tried to simulate cookie banners by seeking out examples, I noticed that it allowed some. I’m assuming that this is based on the block list. So, don’t be surprised to see it allowing banners on some sites.
For me, Ninja Cookie has been one of those “fire and forget” extensions. It just works. If it reduced cookie annoyances by 50 percent, I’d be happy with that. But so far, it’s been great.
The Ninja Cookie extension is available for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and there’s even one for Safari, but that extension is still in beta.
All my testing was done in Chrome, so I can’t speak for the performance on other browsers, but I’m very pleased with it.
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The UK government has been criticized for a “litany” of failures that could leave countless residents with slow Internet services for “many years to come.”

The UK’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), responsible for monitoring and investigating government spending, said on Friday that a pledge made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2019 to “turbo-charge” the nation through a “broadband revolution” has been dogged by a “litany of failures” which makes such a prospect unlikely. 
Johnson promised that by 2025, UK residents would have access to full-fiber broadband services, many of which would offer gigabit speeds. To achieve this goal, £5 billion ($6.8bn) would be allocated and invested. 
In October 2020, the accounts committee called the goal “ludicrously unrealistic,” and now, it seems, the pledge has been shown to be unachievable. 
The UK is back under lockdown and both children and teachers are relying on connectivity in remote learning programs. Our increased reliance on Internet services has also highlighted issues surrounding the ‘digital divide’ and there is a worry that children in underserved areas — as well as those without a reliable connection at home — may not have access to education through no fault of their own. 
On Friday, the committee released a report blaming the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) for failures in making any substantial progress toward the broadband pledge. 
The report claims that the DCMS has failed to make “meaningful progress” in tackling issues faced by operators in rolling out gigabit connectivity, and also slammed the government for making only 25% of the £5 billion fund readily available.

According to PAC, the original pledge has proven to be “unachievable,” and while the government has revised its target to “at least 85%” coverage by 2025, more needs to be done to come anywhere close to this goal. 
In addition, the committee says that there is no clear plan for subsidizing broadband installations in the hardest to reach, rural and remote areas — potentially leaving 20% of UK premises out of the plan. 
The committee recommends that the government creates and publishes a clear timeline for achievable milestones in rolling out improved broadband coverage, adding that barriers to implementation — such as changes in planning regulations and business rates — need to be identified and solutions found as a matter of urgency. 
In addition, MPs say that potential shortages of talent and skilled workers need to be addressed; suppliers for gigabit services need to be worked with more closely, and the government must set out its plan to improve targeting — especially within rural areas. 
“The department is yet again failing to prioritize consumers in rural areas,” the report says. “The DCMS says that it intends to take an ‘outside-in’ approach to the roll-out of gigabit-capable broadband, focussing on those areas that currently do not have access to superfast [broadband] so that they do not remain left behind. But the most difficult-to-reach premises are not neatly grouped together, and the department is not yet clear on how it will prioritize its interventions to ensure that they are served.” 
Finally, the committee has urged the DCMS to tackle the potential problem of monopolies in underserved areas, and to explain how it will reduce the risk of consumers being overcharged. 
“For the foreseeable future, ever more of our lives is moving online, whether we like it or not,” commented Meg Hillier MP, Chair of PAC. “[The] government cannot allow digital inequality to continue to compound and exacerbate the economic inequality that has been so harshly exposed in the COVID-19 pandemic. It needs to be clear about timelines in each area so that businesses and individuals can plan for their digital future.”
Speaking to ZDNet, Catherine Colloms, MD for Corporate Affairs at Openreach said it was always going to be an “ambitious” target, but given how critical broadband now is during the COVID-19 pandemic — and likely beyond — barriers to the rollout need to be addressed. 
“At Openreach, we’ve consistently championed the need for faster action on rural broadband upgrades, because we don’t want communities left behind and we know it will underpin the UK’s economic, social and environmental recovery,” Colloms commented. “We’re very keen to lean in and do our bit but, as the PAC report notes, there remain barriers preventing the industry from going faster — like business rates and access to property and land — so it’s vital that these are addressed by government as a priority.”
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Yesterday — Jan. 6, 2021 — was a day that will live in infamy for the US. Rioters, urged on by President Donald Trump, successfully attacked the US Capitol. 
For weeks, President Trump had been spreading false claims that the election had somehow been stolen from him. Then, President Trump tweeted: “I hope the Democrats … are looking at the thousands of people pouring into DC. They won’t stand for a landslide election victory to be stolen.” And, underlining what he expected these protestors to do, he called for Republicans to “FIGHT!”

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The first social media coup — complete with terrorists taking selfies in the Senate chambers — was underway. 
Enough. Stop him. Stop him now. 
For years, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other social media sites have let President Trump repeat lie after lie. They’ve enabled him to attack his enemies, including Vice President Mike Pence, when Pence disagrees with him. 
Over a century ago, in the 1919 Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) case Schenck v. US, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote that “free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”  
That SCOTUS decision was later modified in 1969’s Brandenburg v. Ohio. In that case, the Court ruled that the government could not punish inflammatory speech unless it was “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” Imminent lawless action? That would include breaking into the Capitol Building.

Thanks to the Communications Decency Act’s Section 230, online services may moderate sites without legal liability. In short, they don’t have to give President Trump a bully pulpit — an especially apt metaphor — to say whatever lies he wants when he wants. 
President Trump is now de facto guilty of sedition — the incitement of insurrection against lawful authority. Sedition is a crime in which people conspire to overthrow the US government, or “prevent, hinder, or delay the execution” of US law by force. It’s punishable by a fine and up to 20 years in prison. But that’s a story for another day. 
We’ve been arguing in social network management circles for years over how much moderation should be exerted over any social network user and, in particular, President Trump. Now, though, as Casey Newton said in The Verge: 

Americans voted Trump out of office, but instead of accepting that result, he has sought to overturn it. By inciting the violent occupation of the US Capitol, Trump has given up any legitimate claim to power. In 14 days, barring catastrophe, he will be out of office. The only question is how much damage he will do in the meantime — and we know, based on long experience, that his Twitter and Facebook accounts will be among his primary weapons.

Exactly. 
Twitter, Facebook, et. al., must stop allowing President Trump to use them this way. After the violence in Washington DC, Twitter — followed by Facebook and Instagram — temporarily blocked President Trump’s accounts. More recently, Facebook and Instagram blocked his accounts for the next two weeks. YouTube has just instituted a strike policy that blocks false claims about the election. With this move, President Trump’s been blocked from posting to YouTube.
That’s a good start, but more needs to be done. 
Despite the right-wing fantasies about Facebook, Twitter, and others muzzling them for years, President Trump and his right-wing advocates have been free to say whatever they wanted, no matter how fictitious. With over 80 million Twitter followers, President Trump has said whatever he wanted to one of the largest social network audiences on the planet. 
And he has fed that huge audience a steady stream of lies, conspiracy theories, and self-aggrandizing fantasies. Locked in their social-network echo-chambers, his followers believe in a reality that has only a marginal relationship with the real world. 
For example,  I have an otherwise intelligent friend who insists that the evidence for massive voter fraud has never been fairly examined. In fact, President Trump and his legal allies are zero for 42 in their court cases trying to prove election fraud. Local, state, and federal courts in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania have all rejected his attempts to overturn the election. And that, I might add, includes rulings against him by numerous Trump-appointed judges. 
There is no “there” there. There’s no evidence to support election fraud. There’s only the constant repeating of lies by President Trump and his followers.
If these lies were harmless — like those fools who believe the Earth is flat — it wouldn’t matter. These are not harmless lies. President Trump’s lies led to the deaths of at least four people during the Capitol riots. These are lies that strike at the very roots of American democracy. 
For the good of the country, President Trump and others who spread lies designed to incite violence against others and the country must be stopped. He and his ilk must be banned from the major social networks. 
That won’t stop them. As Jane Lytvynenko and Molly Hensley-Clancy reported at BuzzFeed, the Jan. 6 attack had been planned on niche web forums and right-wing social network Parler for weeks. 
How these niche sites and networks should be dealt with is a problem for another day. President Trump and those like him can always find their audience in right-wing news media sites such as One America News and Newsmax, Parler, or his own websites. But it’s well past time to bar him from the major, public spaces of the internet.
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Application security pioneer F5 this afternoon said it will spend half a billion dollars to acquire privately held, Volterra of Santa Clara, California, a maker of distributed multi-cloud application security and load-balancing software.
The company also pre-announced revenue for the December quarter, its fiscal first quarter, in a range higher than analysts have been expecting and higher than the company’s own forecast for revenue offered back in October. 
Shares of F5 rose by 3% in late trading to $186.02.
F5’s CEO, François Locoh-Donou, said in prepared remarks that the current cloud infrastructure is inadequate for application security.
“Current edge solutions are simply inadequate for today’s enterprise customers. It’s time to break out of closed edge systems that only perpetuate the pain of building, running, and securing apps,” said Locoh-Donou. He added, “the success of F5’s software transformation has put us in a position to deliver on the potential of Edge 2.0 and redefine our competitive position.”
Volterra’s VoltMesh service promises to make it quick to transition between cloud providers by abstracting APIs across different providers.

More details are available in a blog post from F5 and a blog post from Volterra.

Volterra’s CEO and founder, Ankur Singla, will stay at F5 in “key management roles,” the company said.
F5 said it will spend “approximately $440 million in cash” plus “approximately $60 million in deferred consideration and assumed unvested incentive compensation to founders and employees.” 
F5 raised its outlook for the December quarter’s revenue to a range of $623 million to $626 million, which is higher than the outlook it offered in October for $595 million to $615 million, and also higher than Wall Street’s current outlook for $605 million. 
The company said its earnings per share will come in above its forecast previously offered for $2.26 to $2.38 per share, which is on a non-GAAP basis, so it excludes certain costs. The Street has been modeling $2.34 pe share.
F5 also raised its outlook for 2021 and 2022 fiscal year growth, what it refers to as “Horizon 2.” It now sees 2021 and 2022 growth, on a compounded annual basis, of 7% to 8%, versus a prior forecast for 6% to 7%.
CEO Locoh-Donou said of the new outlook, “We are on track to deliver our best quarterly results since we embarked on our transformation, with approximately 10% revenue growth fueled by continued strong software demand along with resilience in our systems business.” 
F5 also reiterated a commitment to make a total of a billion dollars worth of share repurchases over the next two years. That would be almost ten percent of the company’s market capitalization. 
F5 management will host a conference call to discuss the deal this evening at 2:15 pm Pacific/5:15 Eastern, and you can tune in via the company’s investor relations Web site.

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Australian-based not-for-profit organisation Northcott Disability Services may have been “paying good money” for its on-premise environment but according to the organisation’s CIO Paul Herbert, it was not doing its 184 worksites across Australia any favours.
“The sites were unloved; a lot of them were still running on 4G. Our head office had only 30Mbps. At that stage, we probably had 1,100 staff struggling to work that way. So, it was not a great environment,” he told ZDNet.
Herbert said the end-user network experience was so poor that staff “weren’t even bothering to tell [the IT team] about it” even though it “caused a lot of frustration”.
“It wasn’t just our infrastructure, it was across the whole environment,” he said.
In acknowledging that something needed to change, Northcott has adopted an Equinix hybrid cloud environment, which now allows the not-for-profit to consume its on-prem, private network alongside Amazon Cloud services.
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The organisation has also been investing in Citrix virtual apps and desktops to support a remote working environment, enabling the organisation to introduce a range of applications such as Skype for Business, as well as different devices to its environment that can now be managed remotely. 

“Most of those devices are zero-touch. It goes straight from the manufacturer to the end users. They unbox it and they can just use it. This wasn’t possible beforehand,” Herbert said.
At the same time, Northcott worked with Bright Tech to develop and install a network-in-a-box (NiaB) solution across its sites over the past 18 months.
“We’ve now successfully upgraded or commissioned 170 sites — over 100 completed this year. Our staff now have a great network, giving them great tools to support our customers,” Herbert said.
Herbert said this has not only standardised the network at each of its sites, but the organisation now runs a fleet of 530 Dell Wyse thin clients.
“Previously, laptops existed in isolation and connecting to Northcott meant logging in via a public network which created a security risk and a poor end user experience. Staff were stuck behind a computer when they could have been supporting our customers,” he said.
The shift to hybrid cloud has enabled Northcott to save 60% on previous costs, Herbert added. 
“We’ve saved but we’re delivering so much more. Our wide area network capacity is now over 8Gbps whereas it wasn’t much more than 100Mbps two or three years ago.”
Looking ahead, Northcott is looking to shift away from its current on-prem version of Microsoft Office 2016 and adopt Office 365 over the next 18-24 months, as well as introduce Salesforce into its environment.
Additionally, Northcott plans to roll out Apple TV to all its group homes so that digital content can be delivered remotely to individuals residing in those homes.
“During COVID where people couldn’t meet, Northcott developed a program to deliver relevant content to our customers but found it was really hard to share that information because our group homes didn’t have a smart TV and they’d often have to watch the content on a DVD or on a small laptop screen,” Herbert said.
“What we’ve done is received a large donation so we can deploy 135 Apple TVs across our networks. We’ve made every TV smart so that it can be commonly managed through a unified platform … not only does it mean we can deliver new content, but it can be used by our therapists and we can offer a range of entertainment opportunities that may have not been there previously.”
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The new year is here, and everyone’s excited to get back to work. But if you’ve purchased a new Thunderbolt 3 equipped laptop, such as one of the new M1 Macbook Pros, or one of the few Thunderbolt 4 equipped laptops, such as the current crop of Lenovo and Dell models, you’ve probably noticed you are lacking in USB-C and also Ethernet ports. And, perhaps, you also need to drive multiple monitors, as well as external keyboards and mice.

The new SD5700T docking station ($319.99), just released for Kensington, seeks to make life easier for all those laptop users that, until now, have had to contend with port-deprived, jury-rigged desktop setups. I myself, for the last two years, have been one of these users, having migrated to the 2018-2019 16-inch MacBook Pro and needing to connect two external 4K monitors, in addition to several other USB peripherals as well as a hard-wired gigabit Ethernet connection. 
Like all other MacBook Pro users, I quickly discovered the four Thunderbolt 3 ports on the laptop were insufficient. Sure, I could drive two monitors with twin Thunderbolt to DisplayPort cables (MST isn’t supported; you can’t “daisy-chain” DisplayPort devices on a Mac, as you can with Windows and Linux systems), but that leaves just one port free because one has to be taken up by an external power supply.
My previous solution to this was the CalDigit TS3 Plus ($249), which is a similar Thunderbolt 3 product that supports dual external 4K monitors (one with DisplayPort and one with Thunderbolt), as well as five extra USB ports, Ethernet, and various audio ports. 
The SD5700T is definitely a step up from the CalDigit, at least for my use. With a single Thunderbolt cable coming out of the MacBook Pro (leaving three of the ports free for other use), I’m able to power/charge the laptop using the 90W USB PD connection and drive twin 27-inch 4K Samsung monitors with a dedicated Ethernet port, with room to plug in USB-C and USB-A devices. 
The powered dock has the following features if you want to push the envelope with peripheral connectivity:
Connect up to 3 Thunderbolt devices (version 3 or 4) directly or up to six in an MST daisy-chain (Windows or Linux) using four Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Four USB-A ports (single 5V/1.5A in front, three Gen2 10Gbps in rear)
UHS-II SD 4.0 card reader
Headphone micro-jack
Transfer speeds up to 40Gbps
Dual 4K 60Hz video output (or single 8K 30Hz)
Gigabit Ethernet
90W USB Power Delivery (PD) via included external power connector and block

The SD5700T docking station from Kensington allows you to connect all these peripherals with just a single Thunderbolt connection to your laptop.
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The only downside to using this configuration is the same I have experienced with the CalDigit: Sometimes, the order in which the external monitors power up and instantiate themselves isn’t the way I want (the one on the right gets swapped for the one on the left, and it requires going into System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement to fix it). I believe this to be a MacOS-specific problem and not the dock hardware. Still, it’s something you’ll likely need to deal with a few times a week when your laptop goes to sleep — in MacOS 11. You can also go into System Preferences > Battery > Power Adapter and click on “Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off,” but that will chew up more energy.

Overall, I think the SD5700T is a great solution for port-constrained home-based and office workers who want to get more connectivity with their Thunderbolt 3 and Thunderbolt 4 laptops. 

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I’m lucky. I have decent cable internet to my home office. It’s not cable gigabit, which is not the same thing as real fiber gigabit, but at 300Mbps, it’s more than good enough. But, most people aren’t so lucky. 
The FCC official broadband definition is a mere 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up. Soon to be out of office FCC chairman Ajit Pai would like to have reduced that number to 10 Mbps in 2018. That’s not enough speed for the 2010s, never mind the 2020s. 
Today, and well into 2021, many of us will still work from home, go to school virtually, and the only movies we’ll be watching will be the ones we’re streaming. That takes up a lot of bandwidth.

How much bandwidth? Take an ordinary household of four. Everyone owns a smartphone, a PC, and a smart speaker. In addition, everyone shares two tablets, two gaming consoles, and a pair of 4K TVs. These days, it’s a safe bet everyone’s using these devices a lot. By Broadband’s Now Bandwidth Calculator’s reckoning you should have at least a 180 Mbps connection. Good luck getting that in many places. 
Making matters worse, few of us have any real choice in ISPs. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance in its latest Profiles of Monopoly: Big Cable and Telecom report found United States’ largest ISPs, Comcast, Charter Spectrum, AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Frontier, and Windstream have divided up the country so that  “83.3 million Americans can only access broadband through a single provider.” 
If you live out in the country, on the wrong side of the digital divide, life is even worse: BroadbandNow Research using the FCC’s data found 42 million don’t even have broadband access by its inadequate standard.  
In my case, I’m one of the few people with real choices. I could use AT&T, except although the company claims it can bring fiber to my house, it really can’t. I could, in theory, get AT&T DSL. Except, whoops, AT&T is phasing out DSL. If you live out in the country, where DSL was often the only broadband you could get, you’re screwed. 

I’m lucky enough to have one real alternative: Skyrunner, a local western North Carolina wireless ISP (WISP). If I were living beyond where cable could reach, I’d use it. But, with maximum speeds of 25Mbps, it’s not fast enough for the overloads I put on my internet connection. Once upon a time, there were lots of local ISPs, but those days are long gone. 
Most of them were squeezed out by the major ISPs. They’re not coming back. Neither in many places are local government ISPs. The big providers, with the support of Pai’s FCC, successfully lobbied 22 state legislatures to outlaw community government ISPs. 
It’s no wonder that millions of people want the Starlink satellite internet so badly. But, bad news folks, even when Starlink has 12,000 satellites in the sky in 2025, Cowen Research analysts figure Starlink will only support up to 485,000 simultaneous users at 100Mbps. That will help many rural users who will otherwise never see broadband, but it’s no replacement for suburban or urban internet.
No matter where you live more internet misery is coming. The big-time ISPs such as AT&T, Charter/Spectrum, and Comcast are introducing data-cap. Comcast, for instance, will now put a 1.2Terabyte (TB) monthly data cap on all its customers in early 2021. 
Who could ever use that much data you ask? You could. 
Remember our family home with four people? In an eight hour day, they’d use an average of 648 Gigabytes a day, or 1.9TB a month. Internet bills are infamous for varying wildly and often come with extra, hidden charges. But, as I write this in late December 2020, you can get that family’s 200Mbps connection for $40 a month. That’s not bad. 
But, to cover your data overages, you’d need to pay Comcast an additional $10 for every 50GB block overage until you max out your overage fees at $100 per month. That’s $140 and that’s serious money. They’d be better off avoiding the overage charges by subscribing to an unlimited data plan for $30 a month. That’s $70, which is still not unreasonable, but with so many of us unemployed these days, it’s not nothing either. 
Or, you could look to 5G. Excuse me as I snicker. There are many different kinds of 5G, and the ones that sound the best, like Verizon’s 5G Ultra-Wideband, are little more than marketing hype. Yes, you can get great speeds if you’re standing next to one of their transmitters, but 99% of its users for 99% of the time will only see 4G speeds with its Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) 5G.
As for AT&T 5G, it’s not good. To quote my friends over at PC Magazine in their latest mobile network benchmarks, “AT&T 5G right now appears to be essentially worthless.” I don’t expect that to change anytime soon in 2021. 
The only 5G to get if you want to use it for broadband in the home in 2021 will be T-Mobile’s Home Internet. For now, it’s still using 4G LTE, but it will soon be deploying low-band 5G in the 600 MHz spectrum to home users. This will give you download speeds around 150Mbps 
No, that’s not Verizon’s over-promised, under-delivered 5G mmWave gigabit speeds. But, with a range in tens of miles, it’s just what rural users need. This T-Mobile plan will cost $50 a month without an annual contract and no data caps. 
So, yes, 5G will be changing how we consume broadband in our home offices. But it won’t be doing it in the way all those glossy television ads are leading to expect. Instead of giving us faster internet, it will give many people who currently can’t get any broadband access to real internet speed. 
As for the rest of the internet in 2021. I can only hope that under President Joe Biden, instead of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) helping out the big ISPs, they’ll help users out instead with a block on fixed lines data caps and real incentives to expand serious broadband to more underserved users. After all, as Tom Wheeler, former FCC chairman and a visiting fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, said, we must recognize that the “internet is no longer ‘nice to have,’ it is critical.”
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