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.
Sure makes a lot of sense. That's the way they do it in some other
countries where service is much cheaper than it is here. Both broadband
and mobile service networks can be shared by multiple companies.
Electric companies already share networks.
Why can't they get together? Why can't they share? Because the Feds
didn't regulate that they have to, so they don't. Because even though it
will be cheaper in the long run, it's more complicated to cooperate than
to go it alone.
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