5G home internet and Sky?

[EK76367]

Hi 

I may shortly be moving to a new home development consisting of 8 individual homes on a (currently) unadopted road. Although the area has fibre broadband available, the house builder is considering putting in a 5G home internet mast rather than having wired fibre connections to each property. 

Does anybody have experience of this? Is it good/bad and how do Sky support that technology (if at all)? Do you need specific equipment in the home? 

Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks. 

Kevin

[Chrisee]

@EK76367 Sky currently only provide broadband over Openreach's network. Never heard of a private 5G network.  5G towers are owned and operated by one of the main mobile networks O2, Vodafone, 3 or EE. There are some community set ups that use short range radio links connecting to a head end which has a fixed line or customers can over course buy their own mobile broadband if they want. These days you can also use Starlink the satellite brosdband service pretty much anywhere assuming you can see the Sky.

However I would check with the developer exactly what they propose and ask to talk to whoever will be operating the service. Not having devent internet access affects the price of homes. Most developers work with Openreach to run full fibre to their development all new roads are unadopted when building starts so that is not an issue. You may find this link useful https://www.openreach.com/help-and-support/developers

Do not assume the builder knows what they are talking about the messes they can make of networking are quite commonly discussed on this forum

[EK76367]

Really helpful. Thank you. 

[TimmyBGood · Accepted solution]

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@EK76367 wrote:

 the house builder is considering putting in a 5G home internet mast rather than having wired fibre connections to each property. 

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I imagine that's a shared cellular aerial, not a 'mast'.  Alternatively it's an individual cellular antenna for each property (probably in the loft or on the eaves) with appropriate cabling to a cellular router point, which has negligible cost (like a few tens of pounds) to the developer.

As @Chrisee indicates, that's frankly a rather cheapskate solution which does nothing to enhance the property value: FTTP should be standard for new builds if it's available in the area.

[EK76367]

Thanks for the reply. Appreciate it.