5G roadblock: labor

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Sun Jan 5 21:10:02 UTC 2020


On 1/5/20 1:05 PM, Shane Ronan wrote:
> This may be the case for single family homes, but bringing ftth into 
> MDUs can be very ezpensive, as building want to charge entry fees, etc.
>
> Same goes for commercial buildings.
>
> 5G fixed wireless allows wireless to be used for the last mile, with 
> the user still taking advantage of WiFi indoors. And it's the same 
> infrastructure that supports the mobile use cases.
>

Aren't commercial and MDU just terminating the fiber at the building and 
sending ethernet where it's needed? I mean, I've never heard of anybody 
using 4G as the last mile solution, so they obviously have a solution to 
those problems today.

Mike




More information about the NANOG mailing list