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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by vvanders on Monday March 18, 2019 @12:28PM (#19422518)
Depends on the company/tower. Quite a few use high gain RF links.

My local WISP uses AirFiber[1] for all their backhauls, mobile can be different but nothing is an absolute.

[1] https://www.ui.com/products/#airfiber

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Re:Mobile data: Why India has the world's cheapest by joecool1029 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @01:31AM (#19428318)
T-Mobile has some AirFiber deployed in west NJ and PA for connecting towers.

There are remote towers that actually have satellite backhaul. You can tell when you're on UMTS/HSPA or LTE and the latency is like 700ms. The companies are trying to eliminate them as they are costly to operate.

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