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I think 5G will be here before full fibre, even in more remote areas.
The masts have to plug in to something, though.
Easiest way to think about the OpenReach nationalisation is as a policy that’s easy to understand, easily measured, probably not too divisive and reasonably easily delivered, unlike, say 100k council homes or eliminating rough sleeping.
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I think 5G will be here before full fibre, even in more remote areas.
The masts have to plug in to something, though.
Indeed. 5G range is typically 500 meters, even if you pushed that out to 2km or so you've still got to get that level of connectivity (be it fibre or microwave uplinks) to hundreds of thousands of sites, so extending this to FTTP isn't that much of a stretch.
Greenbank
I think 5G will be here before full fibre, even in more remote areas. Offering similar speeds without the hassle. Plus all you can eat data. Totally get how annoying not having proper access is, my folks only get a couple of MB In Suffolk. The 4G network there is faster.