On 13/1/20 10:54 am, David wrote:
... isn't it up to the telcos to plan & pay for these disasters? ...
Yes, but as for-profit organizations, telcos will only provide high
reliability networks if someone is willing to pay extra for this
service, or if telcos are compelled to do so by law. The typical
customer will not willing pay, so either the government has to subsidize
this directly, or permit a cross subsidy from city customers (as happens
now with the NBN).
... 5G every 100 metres or so doesn't look so good in a bushfire-prone area.
Telcos are not going to provide 5G micro-cells in bushfire prone areas,
as these are sparsely populated, and so there would not be enough paying
customers to use them. Instead these customers will get 5G via the same
cell towers previously used for 4G.
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