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Re:AWS Private 5G by WORMS_EAT_WORMS on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @01:55PM (#29395921)
The second comment. The telecoms via 5G have been positioning themselves to rent their infrastructure on-demand. The AWS partnership is this but Amazon then re-extending it to developers on their platform as part of their "Cloud" offerings.

I doubt Amazon has many towers of their own here and are almost entirely through one of the telecoms.

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Re:AWS Private 5G by thrashh on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:09PM (#29396118)
Isn’t this service nothing related to using existing infrastructure?

It looks like Amazon is sending you base stations to set up a private network in one location.

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Re:AWS Private 5G by ineedasername on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:42PM (#29397212)
>I doubt Amazon has many towers of their own

Their offering page specifically says that AWS "delivers your network hardware (small cell radio base-station and servers) Attach power and internet connectivity to smart cells and servers"

They are not using telco partnerships here, or at least if they are, it's not on the level of carving out a chunk of the telco network for private use.

I struggle to see how this remains a "cloud" offering rather than a hardware rental.

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Re:AWS Private 5G by vineyardmike on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:09PM (#29396109)
But this doesn't use telco towers? Amazon is literally selling antenae.
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Re:AWS Private 5G by hadlock on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @05:11PM (#29398148)
I think this is more like long haul wifi for your corporate campus, factory, port, university etc. Maybe even for things like parking meters (san francisco's parking meters are famously being updated/upgraded because they're ending EDGE network used by the modems in the parking meters)
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