On Tuesday 27 June 2006 11:34 am, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > On 27/06/06 11:09 +0530, jtd wrote: > <snip> > > > Perish the thought. Movies, music - paid ofcourse. Replacing the > > cablewalla. Afterall it's a Rs.300cr p.a. kitty in Mumbai > > alone.all they need is some servers and POPS. Given the pile of > > cash they sit on capital costs for rolling out such services are > > ridiculously low. > > CapEx for the last mile is high.
That is why Wimax. They already have physical space which would be a huge cost otherwise. Infact for MTNL just recovering all the copper would fund the client side device and they could well afford to replace all copper with wireless - subjet to the technology being capable of handling the connection density. > CapEx for most services is low. > Opex, OTOH, is fairly high for services. > For MTNL increase in opex will be marginal since the major opex is covered by voice services. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
