> It's also not meaningless 5 years into a project that was announced 7 years prior. It's a once-in-100 years project to create infrastructure with a lifetime

> It's also not meaningless 5 years into a project that was announced 7 years prior. It's a once-in-100 years project to create infrastructure with a lifetime of the same order. It involved replacing nearly 100% of the country's telecommunications infrastructure. 5 years is not particularly long in that context, and trashing it because you can't wait 7 years or even 10 years instead of 5 in exchange for a vastly inferior outcome is just utter stupidity. So yes, measuring rollout numbers 5 years in is meaningless.