Somewhere between the cable threaded through the walls and the LTE that follows a phone to a coffee shop sits a third category of home internet that borrows properties from both without being entirely either: fixed wireless access, commonly abbreviated FWA. The technology has existed in various forms for years, but the …

The cable bill that quietly climbs $15 every spring is the reason most Boulder households even look at 5G home internet. For years the trade was simple: cable was faster and more reliable, so you paid the premium and signed whatever the contract demanded. Fixed-wireless 5G has narrowed that gap to the point where, for …

The entire installation arrives in a box the size of a small lamp, and there is no appointment window to wait through. That is the quiet appeal of 5G home internet: you become the install technician, and the whole job usually takes less time than brewing a pot of coffee. The catch is that wireless internet rewards …

"Unlimited" is the most overworked word in the home-internet business, and on 5G fixed-wireless it carries a specific asterisk worth understanding before you switch. The good news for Boulder households is that the asterisk is far smaller than the one cable companies hide in their contracts — there is no hard monthly …

If you found this site, you may be wondering whether WiMAX is available in Boulder — or what happened to it. The short answer: WiMAX never arrived here, and the technology itself is effectively dead. The longer answer is worth understanding, because what replaced WiMAX is significantly better for Boulder homes today. …