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For wireless carriers, the three highest opex costs are 1. Real estate (lease costs, no one owns their cell sites) 2. backhaul, which today means fiber 3. emplo

For wireless carriers, the three highest opex costs are 1. Real estate (lease costs, no one owns their cell sites) 2. backhaul, which today means fiber 3. employees Nationalizing the 5G roll out will not help with any of these costs, the real estate costs are more and more coming from local municipalities or other local entities to place in the right of way Doesn't this situation put a moral hazard on municipal broadband? If a city runs the broadband, why wouldn't they use their government power to keep out competitors and maintain a monopoly?

zw123456 9y ago
That type of thing actually already happens, I work in the industry and I have seen it happen. A state run governmental fiber network was put in place and the government bodies prevented other carriers from placing fiber and forced the wireless carriers to use their fiber at a premium.
- Spooky23 9y ago
  Which state? I can think of one off the top of my head, but the story doesn’t match up.