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The Carriers and HW manufacturers have been getting all excited about 5G but forgetting two things:

Backhaul is expensive and sites in which to place base stations equally expensive and rare.

Solution: Crowd source both, using consumers!

What's that? FTTH covers just 3% of the population(1)? Oh. Bugger.

1: https://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/uk