[manuelabeledo]

In most EU countries and in the US, major wired network companies are already in the wireless market (T-Mobile, Vodafone, AT&T, etc.), so your take would make sense only if they were to stop laying fiber, and replace it with towers. To achieve this though, it would require a massive investment, especially to circumvent network congestion.

[grahamburger]

> To achieve this though, it would require a massive investment, especially to circumvent network congestion.

AKA: 5G

[manuelabeledo]

Not quite. It would require a massive investment on top of the current 5G deployment.

Replacing fiber, cable, or DSL with 5G in dense urban and suburban areas is definitely not what is currently under development.

[grahamburger]

The wireless distribution layer is really the only place mobile carriers are meaningfully bandwidth constrained. It's (relatively) easy and cheap to 10x or even 100x bandwidth available at a tower. The hard part is delivering that capacity to the end user. That's where 5G comes in.