I guess the hope is that this will get incumbent providers off their
rears.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/189066/googles_ultrafast_broadband_questions_and_answers.html
Google, you see, has just announced plans to build a series of
uberfast broadband networks in cities across America. The
We have a new provider coming to town who promises speeds of 13mps.
Stewart
At 05:38 PM 2/10/2010, you wrote:
I guess the hope is that this will get incumbent providers off their
rears.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/189066/googles_ultrafast_broadband_questions_and_answers.html
Google, you
I guess the hope is that this will get incumbent providers off their
rears.
If you pay for it I will build it. I can all ready do what they are
describing, and do. For the paying customers.
I'm disinclined to bankrupt myself under any circumstances.
Only if you have the infrastructure.
The local phone provider has told me he cannot get my DSL over 4 mps
due to the trunk line being the size it is.
Present local cable can get it to 10mps. New cable provider is
telling me they can do 13mps.
That means either the phone company has to
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
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
Imagine an Internet Provider who bought access, and taped into that line to
offer service?
That opens up a can o' worms. The FCC says I HAVE to open the
copper network, which I built BTW, to alternative providers.
Part of the motivation to build a separate data network not subject to
those
Notice that I said bought access.
They are building highways now with private contractors. Toll roads.
Stewart
That opens up a can o' worms. The FCC says I HAVE to open the
copper network, which I built BTW, to alternative providers.
Part of the motivation to build a separate data
They are building highways now with private contractors. Toll roads.
Yes. But if I charge my costs off to these contactors at full rate I still
won't recover my build expense. I mean I use contractors. If I used line
personnel it would be prohibitive. Yes I rely on the tolls to recover the
On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Eric S. Sande wrote:
I AM rebuilding my system. But the scale they propose is
unprecedented.
It is not unprecedented. It exists in Japan, Korea, and other places
I'm not going to look up.
Today, suffering from cabin fever, I ordered up a video on demand from
It is not unprecedented. It exists in Japan, Korea, and other places
I'm not going to look up.
I'm not going to cite numbers on how small physically Japan and Korea
are. Compared to the US.
I won't say how much their governments pay towards supporting
telecom.
I'll say that it's apples and
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