Then charge the customers more for a 5G subscription and if they don't want to pay that and are quite happy with their "slow" 4G connection, then that begs the question whether 5G is worth the investment at all.
Making content providers pay the ISPs doesn't help consumers at all. Because content providers will simply increase their prices to cover the extra fees, so consumers are either going to pay their ISP more directly through their internet subscription or indirectly through their content subscription.
This whole idea is just a way for ISPs to raise prices without actually sending their customers a higher bill. They'll simply let the content providers take the fall for it instead.
What's so incredibly expensive about the 5G rollout that wasn't the case for "3G/4G"? You replace/mount more radios, make sure you have backhaul to carry the traffic.
I have no idea what the radios cost, but one thing that's for sure is that networking gear isn't that expensive. I know a guy that runs a teeny IX where everyone gets a 100GB port, because it's not that expensive.
Once you start doing stateful packet introspection, that's when price goes through the roof.
Once the 3G network is dead we can reuse that low-freq bands for 5G with similar range. You only use the high-freq high-bandwidth radios in populated areas.
https://youtu.be/0faCad2kKeg this is Wendover Productions explanation of cell service, there's an error regarding ultra high-freq when he means ultra low-freq, other than that it's a good explanation of how RF works.
An important bit here is that 3G is 16 combinations and 5G is 1000+, this is why it's important to deprecate old tech, we need to reuse frequencies.
