Re: I dont really understand why i need 5g at all
I believe there are considerations in high density areas - 5G is shorter ranged using more, smaller base-stations, and these will have less users on each one.
So if every street needs its own base station - in urban areas not an unreasonable concept - then the costs of connecting these local base stations via fibre optic to the backhaul termination site is going to be huge. There's no vast, spare, free-of-charge capacity on existing urban VDSL or cable networks, so the lowest cost option is to use the ducts of other telcos where possible, but that's still going to involve paying for access PLUS the costs of blowing, terminations and local ducting to connect to the fixed line ducts either end.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
