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To: Spekulatius who wrote (31177)	4/27/2019 4:19:33 PM
From: JimisJim	2 Recommendations Recommended By Fuzzy Spekulatius Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

I guess living physically on the fringes both here and in N. Mich. I've been living in the technological past. We just got full 4G and LTE at our house a few months ago and still only one bar signal strength and issues of dropped calls or even text msg deliveries that didn't go through... hence we still have a land line at home and rely on fast/reliable wifi for everything, even our cells. In Mich., it's even worse... my brother and I spent a sizable amt of money to get the only ISP in that area (a small CATV outfit owned by Charter, with their Spectrum brand, etc... it is the worst... I hate Spectrum but it's the only game in town -- and no, satellite doesn't work there because we're in the middle of a mature forested area and only see small patches of sky from our dwellings... we used to grab a boat and run out a couple miles on the lake to get a decent cell signal from a neighboring town roughly 8 miles on the other end of the lake... And because we use CATV for everything (phone, internet, TV) some times of year, it blazes... but during tourist season (most of the places in that area are 2nd homes and only occupied for 3 months a year, if that), it slows to a literal crawl -- reminds me of 56kbaud dialup modem days in terms of throughput. So I'm not holding my breath for 5G. Everyone I know who has access to FIOS loves it. I would switch to it in a heartbeat if it were available in my area. Last I checked most FIOS service is on the east coast from mid Atlantic to Boston... Frontier bought up VZ FIOS infrastructure here on the west coast but it's not an option anywhere near us. I think I read the FIOS potential market is only available to 18 million homes nationwide... not like it's new or anything -- been around for a good long while, but obviously not in any hurry to grow into other geographic regions... frustrating... Yeah, on our CATV internet when the tourists roll in, packet collisions and losses abound... it's the nature of CATV on the cheap -- entire zip codes sometimes are sharing the same backbone and everyone's streaming video the same time of day as everyone else... I would love an option. Too far away from local phone CO to even get any non-cable options like ADSL2... so we are stuck with Spectrum... Oh well, I go there to get away from civilization and sometimes go a week without booting up my laptop to check email, etc. And my cell phone tends to stay on my dresser top there as it is mostly useless (unless you go out a mile or two to the middle of the lake). But in case I didn't mention it, I hate Spectrum -- every little part of it sux... 5G probably is still years away for me in either location I spend large chunks of time.

To: Spekulatius who wrote (31177)	4/28/2019 10:55:58 AM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34328

Emerging 5G any good Dividend plays? I continue to add to my NOK yielding 3.6%. That and ERIC are probably the best 5G technology plays other than some of the chip developers (LSCC & XLNX) but those overvalued IMO. I have a tiny small cap play in CRNT that builds wireless 5G Cell Tower to Fiber broadband systems. This allows cell towers in range of sight to connect to the fiber nodes using their wireless broadband transmission systems. It will be interesting to see how fast 5G is adopted in US vs in other countries. Latin America, India and China seem to leapfrog to the 5G platform. I own VOD & T to get exposure there (T has big footprint in Mexico). The service providers T, VZ and even CMCSA are good domestic 5G plays and to some extent CTL (if/when they implement 5G to the home). FWIW, I have upgraded my Home broadband Network using high end ASUS router (tri-band) in a Mesh sytem design. The ASUS routers have a very nice firewall/security service built into their firmware (updated a few times a year). AiProtection is a Router Security service that provides real time networking and monitoring. I also recently installed a VPN service call SurfShark.com and that allows unlimited devices and has WIN/APPL/Android apps so you can run on each device and/or router. Systems/Technology getting smarter so easy for bad guys to hack your devices. Internet of Things are vulnerabe. Like Jim said, hackers use your IP as a relay node and/or embedd bots in the firmware to do all sorts of this (mining bitcoin, spamm etc). I do think there are some investment oportunities in 5G but not many w/ good solid dividend payers/growers. EKS