Surprisingly there are FIOS cable running in some very rural areas.
When I lived in WI Williams (now just a Gas company) laid a FIOS
cable for telephone service from one end of WI to the other (E-W)
along a rural Highway as they got a good price on the right of way.
Imagine an Internet Provider who bought access, and taped into that
line to offer service?
The new cable provider who has come into town has laid fiber from
their cable heads to town to provide service.
They are putting a lot of money into the system in hopes of striking
it big. Of course they probably will. I already told you about our
phone service, but our main cable provider is Charter and they are
not putting any money into the local cable system. We have no DVR,
VOIP, HD or any extras except for movie channels.
I expect the new provider to offer all this (They already offered it
to my church, but we are under contract right now) at an attractive price.
Stewart
At 07:23 PM 2/10/2010, you wrote:
Only if you have the infrastructure.
Actually my model is to build it on demand, in the gigabit
arena. In other words build to order. I can't do it any other
way. It's not inexpensive.
FiOs alone is a hugh investment. But we feel it's worthwhile in
high density areas.
If you want gigabit speeds elsewhere, you'll pay the construction
costs. Yes I can do it. But I can't afford to do it on an affordable
basis to EVERYWHERE.
If Google can afford the investment then they'd be well advised to
partner with my engineering and construction people. They are
the experts.
I agree that the infrastructure has to be built. But what Google is
saying is like saying that interstate highways or railroads are
desirable without actually consulting people whose business it is
to build them.
This kind of action costs money. Big, serious money.
Maybe Google has it. I don't know. But right now I don't.
I AM rebuilding my system. But the scale they propose is unprecedented.
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