Fixed wireless has the potential to meet fiber optic

Congestion: Fixed wireless has the potential to meet fiber-optic Internet speeds, but circumstances prevent the radio waves from ever catching up to the photons</strong>. You already know that Wireless degrades with distance, bringing the speed down with it, but there is a greater issue at hand. As with a cable connection, fixed wireless users share bandwidth across their local network, so when many people are accessing the network at once, the speed slows.

To put this in perspective, let’s say you are paying for a 100 Mbps network, but your share that network with all ten homes in your neighborhood. If everyone is on at once, you are getting 10 Mbps at best. Whereas if you are paying for a 100 Mbps network of fiber, that speed is just for your home alone.
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The Importance of Broadband
In 2016 3,424,971,237 people worldwide accessed the Internet. In the U.S. alone, 88.5% of citizens used the Internet. Every year these numbers grow, and the Internet becomes more and more important to our everyday lives, on an individual, and societal level.