One item to consider re: costs. My rural NH town just installed fiber to run past all premises. A quick estimate of total capital cost uses two numbers:
- $40K/mile to hang the fiber on existing utility poles on the road - $2K-$4K per premise for the drop cable from the pole and the router in the premise > On Apr 14, 2022, at 11:24 AM, Dave Taht via Rpm <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Looking at figure 7 (non-adoption rates by age group), nearly 30% of > those under 30 do not have fixed broadband. > From an informal survey of those I know in that age range, they are > primarily dependent on their cell phones, > cannot live at a fixed address for long enough to adopt fixed > broadband solutions, and go to coffee shops and > libraries (and the office) to get their connectivity. I am kind of > curious as to the trendline here - a cellphone is a must > for this generation, quality fixed internet merely a nice to have. > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 8:18 AM Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> pretty good: >> >> https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5f5282b71117310d16e654d3/t/6256eb4efbb468024f396969/1649863506445/Toward+Effective+Administration+of+State+and+Local+Fixed+Broadband+Programs+-+04.12.22+Final+Report.pdf >> >> My lowball cost estimate for "better, recycled routers" would be >> somewhere in the 20 dollar range for the 25/3mbit segment, which >> depending on how you do the math per above is somewhere between 10 and >> 65 million people. >> >> It would be cool to have good bufferbloat statistics for the 25/3mbit >> portion of the population. >> >> -- >> I tried to build a better future, a few times: >> https://wayforward.archive.org/?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icei.org >> >> Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC > > > > -- > I tried to build a better future, a few times: > https://wayforward.archive.org/?site=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.icei.org > > Dave Täht CEO, TekLibre, LLC > _______________________________________________ > Rpm mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/rpm _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
