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Trouble is, as far as I can tell, at 5G frequencies you need micro stations all over the place. If your suburban street has 10 houses and needs 5 stations (with
by ip26 4y ago
Trouble is, as far as I can tell, at 5G frequencies you need micro stations all over the place. If your suburban street has 10 houses and needs 5 stations (with fiber runs to each) to offer mmWave to everyone, it’s basically just the same thing as home broadband yet more expensive.
- garbagecoder 4y agoNope. There was a company about 20 years ago called WinStar that tried this. The reason it’s not “basically the same” is called “the last mile” problem. It’s vastly cheaper to install things on every block even than to every house especially when the utility poles and right of ways are already there.
- BenjiWiebe 4y agoAt mmWave 5G frequencies. 5G also runs on 4G frequencies with the same propagation as 4G.
- ip26 4y agoIn something of a paradoxical curse, operating on 4G frequencies mean you share spectrum with a much larger land area, limiting possible bandwidth. You aren’t going to serve 1gbps of home internet to every house in reach.