What I would like to do is get a hold of the 2g gear and make town-local wireless for rural towns. It would be dog slow, but you could keep people reasonable connected for pretty cheap.
And you still need software support from the manufacturer to actually make that hardware function, and they don’t support old hardware forever (another reason the carriers are shutting down the old network)
What I would like to do is get a hold of the 2g gear and make town-local wireless for rural towns. It would be dog slow, but you could keep people reasonable connected for pretty cheap.
Even if you got the hardware for free, the operating costs are far more than you might expect.
I’m sure they are. I understand the power requirements alone for 2g vs 5g tx/Rx are eons apart.
Power is one factor.
Spectrum licensing is also not cheap.
And you still need software support from the manufacturer to actually make that hardware function, and they don’t support old hardware forever (another reason the carriers are shutting down the old network)