5G roadblock: labor

Mon Jan 6 06:45:20 UTC 2020

On 5/Jan/20 23:10, Michael Thomas wrote:

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> Aren't commercial and MDU just terminating the fiber at the building
> and sending ethernet where it's needed?

Shane is right - some commercial buildings can make your life difficult
when trying to bring in fibre. I've typically found this to be the case
where during the development of the building project, deals are done
behind the scene where an operator locks themselves in with the
developer to be the exclusive network provider, thereby blocking others
from coming in. So if you want access into that building, you have pay
the exclusive operator to use their network at the building site, which
can - in most cases - be too costly to make sense.

Such practices can be fixed by regulation, and the policing of such
regulation.

> 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.

It's quite common in Africa, where copper lines are no longer reliable
or available, and there has been no business case to deploy fibre.

A simple example:

https://secure.telkom.co.za/today/shop/home/plan/smartbroadband-wireless-lte-5gb-variation/

Mark.