Coax cable is 1980s technology. It's maxed out.
The coaxial cable running to most homes today was installed decades ago for cable TV, then repurposed for internet. It was never built for this much data, and it shows.
- Copper-based, installed in the 1980s
- Signal degrades over distance, needs constant amplification
- Shared bandwidth with your whole neighborhood
- Uses far more energy to move the same data
- Approaching the ceiling of what the technology can physically do
- Glass strands carrying light, modern infrastructure
- No meaningful signal loss, no neighborhood slowdown
- A dedicated private line to your home only
- Far more energy efficient to operate
- Massive headroom to grow as your devices get faster
"5G" is just a generation of cell phone network — not a speed. Real-world 5G home internet usually delivers well under 1,000 Mbps and shares a cell tower with everyone else nearby. Sonic's fiber is a dedicated physical line to your home alone, delivering 8,000+ Mbps with none of the tower congestion. Different technology, not even close in speed.
This isn't just a Sonic talking point — it's the direction the whole country is moving. The federal government has committed over $42 Billion through a national broadband program to help replace aging coax and copper networks with fiber, especially in areas that have been stuck with slower, older infrastructure for too long.
The whole world is already moving this direction — the same way televisions moved from console sets to flat screens, and phones moved from flip phones to smartphones. Fiber is that same kind of shift for your internet connection. Don't be the last one on the old technology.
Every major network gives you live local news free over the internet, no cable subscription needed. Fox Local for Fox 11, the CBS News app and the NBC News app both auto-detect your area for local coverage, and ABC has a dedicated app for each city, like ABC7 for Los Angeles. Good internet is really all you need.
