Re: O2 Arena 5G
Is it really 5G or the equivalent of a stadium deployment of a distributed antenna system (DAS)? Sounds like the latter, with a bit of o2 bandwagon jumping on 5G technologies.
It's not really the same as deploying 5G at street level in say, the City of London.
The fibre optic backhaul deployment for each 5G cell deliberately never gets mentioned in these announcements.
The biggest thing regarding any deployment of 5G is both logistics and how much your backhaul full fibre contract/datacentre processing is going to cost you to deploy/run.
The actual 5G antennae deployment is probably the least of your worries in the scheme of things. I don't see this project as a 5G trial as such, whatever o2 are saying.
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