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Re: yea said by technick:
said by Nightfall:
Maybe they should come up with a deal. If you have fiber running near your house, you can pay up to have it run to your house. Lets say you are 250 feet away. Cost to run the fiber will be $1000, plus you have to pay for the transceivers or fiber modules. Who here would plunk down $2000 up front for fiber to their home plus about $100 a month for service? I might be tempted...but I don't know many home users who would even consider that. Heck, we can't even get normal users to get off dialup when DSL alternatives exist for $27 in their area. :P
With that line of thought if I paid x amount to have fiber, than when I moved to a new location I can take what I paid for with me? Also will I get a discount from the provider I go with since I purchase additional equipment?
Well, that is like my company thinking they could take the fiber with them when they leave. I would have to say...why not? You paid for it. I can't see us leaving behind 500 feet of fiber if we left one of our plants. That is expensive wiring. As for the discount, I don't see any reason why not.
All this is just a big "what if" scenario obviously. The main point I was trying to make is why you won't see FTTH anytime in the near future. It isn't like it runs through wiring that is already in the home. You are looking at an INCREDIBLE expense of money and time to run the fiber to your home. Especially if you have lit fiber already within 400 feet of your home. You think 400 feet is very close, but the wiring and equipment to do the job costs thousands of dollars.
That along with the fact that people are so unwiling to pay for high end broadband for a premium price. Heck, we can't even get people to pay $45 a month without complaining about something. Then we have the users on dialup AOL with a extra phone line when they have DSL alternatives for $25-$30 a month in their area. 
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