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It will be a hard fight to fight. Soon TV's will come with built in 5G, you won't even need to setup its wifi. It will be a difficult to win battle.


Do you honestly believe that?

The TV manufacturers will subsidise a cellular connection to allow users to stream hours of 4K content in exchange for a few pennies of ad revenue?

Smart TVs don't make any sense unless they are connected to a home network.


The 5G connection can be limited to phone-home functions.


What would be the point?

So they can track that you keep the TV tuned to HDMI 1 all day?


And show ads.




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