Quoting "Eric S. Sande" <[email protected]>:
The Interstate Highway System is pegged at $425 billion in 2006
dollars. So you are saying the unrolling fiber costs almost as much
as building a 6 lane national highway system?
Basically yes. If you want a chicken in every pot. Every local switch
and tandem switch has to be equipped. Every mile has to be rebuilt.
It might be twice my estimate.
Or even 6 times as much. After you get done, and the cable companies
run their system, then Google comes in behind all of you to run theirs.
I don't understand why everybody needs to roll their own fiber. I
don't have three sets of power lines coming to my house. Why can't the
"information" providers get together and run one system that they can
all share at a fair price? *Before* the Feds regulate that you have to.
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