Home broadband and mobile service. The fourth utility.
It is a product you buy.
It exists to relieve The dwelling needs power, heat, water, and connection and Stay connected to people who are elsewhere. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Telecom network. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
7 organisations in this map sell it, 5 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- SolutionHome broadband and mobile service
- FrictionThe dwelling needs power, heat, water, and connection
- Life phaseAcross every phase
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inShelter
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliance Industries | $230B | public · RELIANCE | Jio mobile, retail, refining |
| Deutsche Telekom | $180B | public · DTE | T-Mobile US majority, European broadband |
| América Movil | $50B | public · AMX | Telcel, Claro |
| e& (Etisalat) | $45B | government · EAND | mobile in the Gulf, Africa, Asia |
| Charter Communications | $40B | public · CHTR | Spectrum broadband, Cox merger |
| Vodafone | $25B | public · VOD | mobile in Europe and Africa, M-Pesa stake |
| Frontier Communications | private | fibre broadband |