Tag Archives: metro ethernet

Mobile Broadband: Backhaul’s the issue not the air interface

This old weblog article from 2008 discusses the cost structure of a typical mobile operator, and I show below the structure graphically.  The key figure is transport costs (backhaul) are roughly 7% of total costs back in 2008.  Some operators have seen that jump to over 15%-20% of total costs in under 2 years.  The […]