It’s wishful thinking driven by the continued misguided
reliance on undercapitalized investor-owned players like Verizon, AT&T and
Google Fiber. All are looking into fixed premise wireless technologies, with
Google Fiber the most recent, putting its FTTP builds on hold last week while
it searches for the right radio magic. They all like the idea of employing wireless technologies for premise
delivery because no one player has the many billions of dollars necessary to
build out FTTP, spawning a search for lower cost alternatives.
The problem is the physics of radio spectrum are even more
constrained than their finances. There’s only so much data than it can carry.
Higher frequencies can carry significantly greater amounts. But only over such
short distances that their use would require fiber to be brought so close to
customer premises that the hoped for savings by avoiding FTTP deployment would
be severely diminished. Not to mention the fact that higher frequencies are
easily blocked and subject to interference without an unobstructed line of
sight.
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