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Why do home users do this? Does it create a private network between the mobile devices that connect to it?



In Rural areas some people need longer range wifi. IoT devices in different buildings or data service for things on a farm.

If the costs were lower, I deploy something in my neighborhood. For whatever reason, my neighborhood has terrible LTE service. I don't know the exact reasons why but I suspect I have poor service either due to geography like we're using another counties cell tower on a butte 5 miles away due to line of sight issues or maybe there are metallic properties of the land here on our canyon rim (mostly lava flows.)

As my spouse and I bike, take walks or drive to work I would love to have data service in that few mile radius around my house. If my phone could have an eSIM with my provider but a SIM with my own private LTE and a meeting call can fail over between data services, I would have a lot more flexibility.

I would have a lot of other use-cases with IoT and maybe quadrupeds as things like that become more generally available but data within a few mile radius would be the first thing.

I suppose I could get four 90 degree antennas at a higher db power output and blast my neighborhood with wifi but that has a lot of downsides.


If that's for IoT, just use LoRa on license-free bands, and that's it, you're done with km of range if that's some rural areas.


Lora is not an alternative because of literally no data volume.


You don't need data volume for IoT.


That works fine if the use-case allows for high-latency and doesn't need TCP. To your point, I would imagine most all home use-cases are fine in this regard.


Home users don’t really do this but you might see this kind of private LTE network at an air port.




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