“It is really going to disenfranchise rural folks. “
No loss.
You want to see a tower in every-other section of land?
Multi gigabit wireless for phones is overkill.
Some stationary equipment might be able to make use of it in the cities, but those are all cabled in a dense lattice of fiber.
Are they going to compensate the service price because 5G is not available to those rural folks? Rural America is still about 48% of the population. These greedy companies are going to force them to pay the same universal base monthly service cost just to even get any phone service at all. “All or nothing” 5G data service available or not... This greed is the problem with this whole concept.