Yes and no, it’s true it can get similar distance and somewhat similar data speeds as a cell tower
But, at 900MHz you don’t need a license to run it so you can do cool things, like a community WiFi mesh kinda like meshtastic, but with real speeds where hosting mesh-only websites and services become realistic
You can run 5g on unlicensed spectrum too, and there are fully open source 5g stacks. The primary issue there is that most phones don’t have the hardware to connect to those networks. But the same is true right now of wifi on 900 MHz.
Yes and no, it’s true it can get similar distance and somewhat similar data speeds as a cell tower
But, at 900MHz you don’t need a license to run it so you can do cool things, like a community WiFi mesh kinda like meshtastic, but with real speeds where hosting mesh-only websites and services become realistic
You can run 5g on unlicensed spectrum too, and there are fully open source 5g stacks. The primary issue there is that most phones don’t have the hardware to connect to those networks. But the same is true right now of wifi on 900 MHz.