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by 1241rtfasfasf 1971 days ago
I haven't seen use case proposals where 5G replaces home WiFis. It's often referred to as replacing the last mile to your home (i.e., your home router would talk 4G/5G to the operator and create a WiFi in your home). Also, some "small cell" approaches use WiFi and only do the access management using the mobile network.

WiFi on the other hand doesn't have any approaches for wide coverage, cell handover, or any kind of IoT applications.

I'd expect that smaller manufacturers emerge, especially for niche use cases outside consumer mass-markets.