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Comment Re: Boost mobile (Score 1) 209

I believe that the citizens of Hong Kong have demonstrated successfully the technology of Cell Phone to Cell Phone communication without working Cell Phone Towers. Consider the advent of a G5 protocol combined with Cell Phone to Cell Phone communications. Verizon will have to either consider what to do with equipment that is fundamentally, obsolete. What is the scrap value of a Cell Tower?

Comment Re:Boost mobile (Score 1) 209

Maybe one could consider the wi-fi setups General Motors is testing for their cars? This is the reason for moving cell towers to more sparse locations. When the Internet is allowed to bypass cell towers, then maybe they should be placed somewhere more useful? Will there be a need for Ericsson Int?

Comment Re:Boost mobile (Score 1) 209

With the ubiquity of objects connected to the internet and increasing wi-fi like capabilities for those objects. One has to consider their investments in companies like Verizon. Is Verizon still going to be relavent? With band width throttling allowed on Netflix, and Verizon going into the same industry as Netflix; one has to ask, "why?" With software now able to bypass the Cell Tower, maybe the Cell Towers can be moved to more sparse locations, and still be userful?

It will interesting to see what happens when the first 3D Printed cell phone answers a phone call. Then someone using this new type of cell phone; orders a pizza.

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