Originally Posted by
DevilAlumna
Well, it sounds like it gives consumers two primary benefits.
1) Fast, wireless internet. I'm not talking wireless like your house may have a wireless network, because somewhere in that setup, you have a wire (or satellite) still going to your wireless router. This would mean you wouldn't even need that "last mile" wire/line -- instead, signals would be coming from cell towers.
2) More choice for phone handsets/alternate devices on these new networks. So, if you had AT&T "new broadband" service, you could buy a google phone, an HTC phone, an iPhone wannabe, or bring over a cheap import from Korea, and AT&T would have to let them on the network. It doesn't even have to look like a phone -- the device formfactor shouldn't really matter. It would just have to have the right hardware to connect to the new wireless network.
If this still doesn't help, feel free to post more specific questions/scenarios.