Just a thought...but does the price of groceries increase when you're farther from an urban area? Obviously the costs are higher (more trucker miles, less productivity) but I wonder if milk isn't another $1 or something.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Charles N Wyble <[email protected]> wrote: > This is why I have said that the stimulus dollars need to go to middle > milte build outs. Wireless as a last mile medium is very well understood > and gives best bang for the buck in a lot of scenarios. > > Justin Wilson wrote: >> I think part of the issue is economies of scale. Many rural ISPs have >> T1s and T3s at best. The cost of transport and bandwidth doesn¹t allow them >> to scale as well as they could if they had fiber or some other high capacity >> transport. With providers such as Cogent well under $10 a meg in bulk you >> can afford to up the speed (providing your network can support it) if you >> have access to such things. >> >> I have seen several providers start offering better speeds once they had >> access to a bigger pipe. I know in my area a T1 is still around $450 a >> month. Get 4 bonded t1s and you are looking at $300 a meg. If you had >> access to fiber and your transport + bandwidth cost you say $75 a meg you >> could afford to up the subscriber speeds. >> >> Just my thoughts. >> >> Justin >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
