5G to the Home

This paper focuses on the 5G to the Home (FTTH), or 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), use case. In this work, we introduce the concept and new technical problems the 5G system is expected to solve for delivering at least 100 Mb/s/household in downlink, and thus replacing the last few hundred meters of optic fiber infrastructure to the home. This is followed by a financial evaluation of the proposed 5GTTH system, a proof of concept at 28GHz using 800MHz bandwidth, an explanation of a solution that supports Verizon 5G Technology Forum (V5GTF) protocols, and a discussion on technology evolution towards 5G system releases compliant with 3GPP 5G standards. Our business model, under reasonable assumptions, show that the commercial case for a connectivity service provider (CSP) requires more than thirty (30) households per site, and the Return on Investment (RoI) results quite sensitive to the expected Average Revenue Per User (ARPU), which needs to be kept above €40/month/household. Beyond this, we demonstrate the technical feasibility of the proposed 5GTTH solutions from our proof of concept (PoC), V5GTF, to 3GPP 5G Release 15/16 (Phase 1 and 2) compliant products.