> Conservatively, a mmwave base station has a range of about 1,500 feet, At what speed? If that's just the range at which it stops being an upgrade over curren

> Conservatively, a mmwave base station has a range of about 1,500 feet, At what speed? If that's just the range at which it stops being an upgrade over current LTE speeds, that's really unimpressive. The figure of interest here is the range at which mmWave can reliably sustain WiFi-like performance, including enough aggregate capacity for gaming to still have low latency when all your neighbors and one or two of your family members are streaming video. > That should tell you a lot about how expensive that next increment is. Not really. Cable companies are upgrading their networks by replacing some of the coax in the ground with fiber, as necessary to get enough backhaul bandwidth to each node. The incentives there are wildly different than for a new ISP that's either deploying FTTH or short-range cellular, without having access to pre-existing last mile wiring that has no trouble carrying gigabit to each customer. For wired infrastructure, digging the trenches is a lot more expensive than the materials cost for whatever you're putting in the trenches.