We still see T1s and no fiber at some rural sites. Keefw
On March 2, 2018 11:04:40 AM CST, [email protected] wrote: >We are technically rural but in reality we are high density suburban. > >From: Mathew Howard >Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 9:14 AM >To: af >Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Typical Cell Tower bandwidth requirement > >I would've guessed they'd want more like 200-300meg at most cell >towers, but 100meg in a rural area really doesn't surprise me. > > >On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:03 AM, Kurt Fankhauser ><[email protected]> wrote: > >I was talking to a Spectrum employee yesterday as he was installing a >1gig fiber circuit for me and he started talking about how un-common it >was to be seeing a 1 gig DIA circuit installed so i said well what >about the cell phone towers, don't those all have a couple gigs to them >and he said. "Oh no those usually only have 100meg fiber feeds to >them." I was like whoa, thats all? And he said "yeah all the Sprint, >T-mobile, and At&T towers that he's been to are all like 100meg and >he's like usually the Verizon ones are about 300meg circuits." > >Does that really sound possible that a cell tower is only using that >much bandwidth? We are pretty rural here county population is only >45,000 and the city populations are only about 12,000. Can this really >be true? And if so why can't a WISP sell a backup circuit to a cell >tower with some Air Fiber equipment? -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
