Well, fiber and copper have been about the same cost to deploy lately
because the bulk of the cost is in the labor. It makes sense that fiber is
more attractive now because of copper pricing.
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Intelligent Computing Solutions
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----- Original Message -----
From: "chris cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 9:40 AM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Copper landlines gone by 2013
I was at a meeting yesterday that had several large carriers present.
One of the carriers made the comment that they are migrating away from
copper for new deployments. He said that FTTH is now cheaper than
copper due to increased material costs.
c
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tom DeReggi
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 10:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [WISPA] Copper landlines gone by 2013
Thats Funny.
Like A inplace copper plant is more costly to maintain than a new Fiber
network? Not likely.
Tom DeReggi
RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawn DiPietro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Copper landlines gone by 2013
Sam,
My guess is these areas will be sold off to the smaller regional
companies
with less overhead or they will muscle the states into footing the
bill.
As someone once said "No one wants to be in office when the copper
networks go dark."
Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
Sam Tetherow wrote:
I don't deny any of that, but I'd be pretty pissed as a telco
customer if
they are allowed to pull out of those areas. A very large amount of
money has been funneled through the USF program so that voice lines
are
available in the hinterlands.
How many millions of USF dollars has Verizon pulled out of their
Northern
New England customers? I would be very willing to bet that it is
significantly more than they have spent on maintaining the copper to
those customers.
Yes the rural areas a losing money which is why the USF existed in
the
first place, someone decided that all telco customers should fund
voice
to every home regardless of its economic viability. Right or wrong,
that
was the deal they signed on for, they have taken the money for this
long
but now when they are having to make sizable reinvestment they are
trying
to weasel their way out of it.
However, the real point of my reply on the email was that some
customers
are still more economically served via copper rather than wireless.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
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