Holistically speaking, a mobile network is a massive wireline network with radios hanging off its edges. In most cases, the only wireless part of the end-to-end journey of data flowing between users and accessed content is between from User Equipment (UE) and cell site antennae. The rest of the end-to-end journey is predominantly over packet-optical wireline networks, although wireless backhaul does exist.
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