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Designed from the ground up specifically for ngFWA, G1 delivers fiber-class broadband over non-line-of-sight links, in unlicensed spectrum (enabled by a true industry first in interference cancellation), at a fraction of fiber’s cost and time to deploy. No other wireless technology can do all this. Our network economics are 3x better than 5G at FWA.

(1) Oodles of substantive and well-patented inventions in wireless signal processing; (2) custom silicon essential to G1’s economics it would take multiple years for anyone else to replicate (which couldn’t start till after the years they’d need to first catch up on item (1)); and (3) meanwhile, we’re aggressively developing our next platform and inventing even more incredible new approaches to wireless performance.

Fiber is great when you can string it over short distances for free on power or telephone poles (or trees, in the developing world). In most other situations, though, it’s harder and more time-consuming to install than you’d like. There, fiber + Tarana is a much better plan.

The 3GPP 4G and 5G standards were architected to serve a few gigabytes/month to mobile devices in expensive licensed mid-band spectrum. As a result, 3GPP network economics are inherently incompatible with the delivery of the currently terabyte-scale monthly tonnage demanded by typical fixed household subscribers. Outside small-household pockets in secondary markets with low mobile spectrum loading, mobile operator prioritization of fixed service in licensed spectrum (with ~50x lower ARPU per GB consumed) cannot be justified in the long term.

Despite lots of excitement about Starlink and its companions in the low-earth orbit scene, the raw realities of broadband demand density in mainstream markets and resulting network capacity requirements are generally beyond the reach of satellite ventures. Given LEO systems’ orbital geometry, capacity, and coverage area per satellite — along with the unavoidable fact that 71% of the planet is covered by water — their utility in closing the world’s residential digital divide will be limited to areas with fewer than 1 HH per km². This puts the LEOs in a useful but necessarily peripheral role for closing the global divide at scale.

Wi-Fi suppliers have been following form in their enthusiastic advertisement of very high link speeds theoretically achievable with Wi-Fi 6 and (coming soon) 7. In the real world of outdoor applications, neither 6 nor 7 add any of the core capabilities required to deliver reliable fiber-class broadband at scale in unlicensed spectrum, particularly in the domain of self- and external interference mitigation.