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In most parts of the world, home Internet has never been limited tbh. This is mostly a North American thing.
But fiber is much less likely to be limited than 4G or 5G? It's also not affected by weather, so you don't get random drops.
There are definitely bad ISPs out there providing capped fiber, but fiber itself is significantly superior to 5G if you want a stable and fast connection.
I used to have several outages per year with fiber internet. In the year and a half I've had 5G home Internet not a single outage. But you are able to get much higher speeds with fiber, so if you had some kind of business that needed like 10 gig speeds, fibers the best choice for that. But for home Internet 5G is much more superior in reliability, and fairness in pricing for the consumer.
Is 5G really that much more reliable than 4G? Because on 4G I often get spikes (of lengths between 2 seconds and several days) of low speeds, dropped packages, high latency, etc. Whereas I've never had an outage on fiber, nor has anyone else I know. Fiber is also not affected much by other peoples' usage.
I think fiber being shit is very much a regional thing, and mostly Northern American. It's the lack of competition. A good fiber service will outperform a good wireless service any day of the week. And it can be done on the cheap too, if there's competition. Romanians get gigabit fiber for like 8 euros a month and 300 mbps is the minimum speed offered I believe. The key is that you can't let a single ISP own the entire network in an area. Should be government-owned ideally.
5G is super fast, and wow you Romanians are lucky. But here in America ISPs are grinches who charge you 49.99 for the first year and then increase your price to $80, which is a whole 60% mark-up. So before 5G home Internet was a thing, you only had one provider in the area you lived, and this lack of competition basically allowed them to price gouge us over the years till our bill got to $220 for 100mb. 5G was truly a life saver for my families budget. And you are right about cable Internet being more performant, but 5G did introduce some very much needed competition in the telecommunications space.
I'm not Romanian actually, it was an example of what fiber can be when your government doesn't let monopolies happen.
I'm glad 5G works for you. Here in Estonia it's a lot more expensive than fiber and fiber itself is significantly overpriced (100 mbps being like 27 eur a month, unlimited cellular data more like 50 and that comes with no guarantees of speed or even availability).