[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Phil Trubey [@PTrubey](/creator/twitter/PTrubey) on x 7545 followers Created: 2025-07-05 01:41:23 UTC I keep running into people who think wireless technologies are going to replace fiber optics for communications. Either Wifi, Cellular or Satellite (Starlink). It's never going to happen. This picture of the electromagnetic spectrum shows one reason why. All wireless communications use radio frequencies, whereas fiber uses optical frequencies which are up XXXXXX times higher. A single strand of fiber can carry about XXXXX times as much data as a radio transmission. The inset image of an approx. 1" fiber cable carrying XXXXX individual fiber strands is another reason why fiber is king. You can't run thousands of radio transmissions in the same dense area since the signals interfere with each other, but you can run an unlimited number of fiber cables along side each other. The fact is that wireless and fiber are complementary technologies. We need both. Wireless for ships, airplanes, rural, WiFi and in city iPhone coverage. And then all those radio based wireless services forward all those data packets to the Internet using fiber.  XXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [phil](/topic/phil) [Post Link](https://x.com/PTrubey/status/1941311412963508595)
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Phil Trubey @PTrubey on x 7545 followers
Created: 2025-07-05 01:41:23 UTC
I keep running into people who think wireless technologies are going to replace fiber optics for communications. Either Wifi, Cellular or Satellite (Starlink).
It's never going to happen.
This picture of the electromagnetic spectrum shows one reason why. All wireless communications use radio frequencies, whereas fiber uses optical frequencies which are up XXXXXX times higher. A single strand of fiber can carry about XXXXX times as much data as a radio transmission.
The inset image of an approx. 1" fiber cable carrying XXXXX individual fiber strands is another reason why fiber is king. You can't run thousands of radio transmissions in the same dense area since the signals interfere with each other, but you can run an unlimited number of fiber cables along side each other.
The fact is that wireless and fiber are complementary technologies. We need both. Wireless for ships, airplanes, rural, WiFi and in city iPhone coverage. And then all those radio based wireless services forward all those data packets to the Internet using fiber.
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