Using 5G fixed wireless access as a transitionary technology before deploying full-fibre to the home/business/farm/barn. This talk is about projects carried out on the Orkney Islands, in the far north of Scotland, UK. Lots of photographs and discussions about building access networks serving remote rural locations with their own environmental challenges. Parts of this talk have been given at UKNOF (focussed on “automation”), NetMcr (focussed on “rainy and windy POPs”), and GEANT’s SIG-NGN (“the first fibre-in-pipe deployment in the UK”), but it’s the first time I intend to bring together all the technologies into one big talk.