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Re: 5G roadblock: labor
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 01:51:26 +0200
On 30/Dec/19 00:49, Michael Thomas wrote:
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/29/big-barrier-trump-5g-america-089883 An interesting article on the road to 5G that they need to about double the size of the workforce to roll it out. I expect that this affects some of you directly. But one of its premises seems a little shaky to me: has the US ever led the pack rolling out new network technology? I always thought it was Japan and South Korea that were years ahead of us. In silicon valley and SF it's still very rare to see FTTH. I'm not sure why we would expect to get to 5G any faster than we normally do.
Personally, I'm skeptical about major 5G investment at scale. This is one of those "time will tell" situations. I mean, we aren't struggling for 4G/LTE performance, and in my mind, 5G was developed when fibre was probably less perverse, from a global standpoint. Times have changed a tad since then. Mark.
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- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Dec 29)
- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Christopher Morrow (Dec 29)
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- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Dec 30)
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- Re: 5G roadblock: labor Mark Tinka (Dec 30)
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