Are these tower installers BS'ing me?

[supersunbird]

OP never said there was no backhaul. He simply said there is no fibre backhaul.

PTP Microwave can hit 10's of Gbps - Very close to fibre latency too, and cheaper to install.

Please see highlighted below which is causing the OPs confusion:

So we had a company come to our place to talk about putting up a cell tower in our property.

All is fine except when questioned about where they are getting the backhaul for the tower because there isnt fibre in that suburb yet they said they not using any backhaul.

So now im confused, are some towers setup to repeat the signal?

I assumed all have fibre backhaul.

If they had said "we are using a microwave backhaul" then he would know it and not ask here, if the OP misunderstood and they had said "no fibre backhaul" then that’s on OPs lack of knowledge about alternatives, if they indeed said "not using any backhaul" then there is BS or incompetence from them.