Not a single fibre? How do you connect to the net then?

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Not a single fibre? How do you connect to the net then?

Directly to Data Centres where we can. The benefits over "last mile" Fibre are many fold.

Redundant routing capable, secure, redundant power feed , multiple carriers, oodles of capacity, rack space and no BT involvement !

It does increase the complexity of the Wireless side a bit but it is well worth the results, especially when one network alone sends at east 10 TB a month of data to customers.

cheers

Also needs access to suitable antenna hosting sites (aka masts)

A lot depends on where you have come from. As Bill says, he has a long, long history with wireless comms and no doubt also on how to sort out cost effective antenna hosting sites.

Local fibre backhaul is an excellent, stable technical solution - but as Bill says it comes at a big cost. However, if you cannot locate cost effective antenna sites then you have little real option.