Another BPL Trial Dropped > Fiber is the answer. Japan has it and the US ..

reply to Doctor Olds

Re: Fiber is the answer. Japan has it and the US

And it couldn't be that we (the US) already paid for fiber once and the Telcos have spent the funds elsewhere that were for the fiber? Nah, they wouldn't do that?

reply to Marilla
Well, duh. It wouldn't be very productive to fiber the entire Country...but, all major metro areas should be fiber by now! LA should be fiber,San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago... Philadelphia(hello, Verizon)should have several flavors by now, it's already been paid for!

Now, in rural America, it would have to wait(sorry guys). But densely populated areas, we should have some smokin' fiber already up and running.

There is no legitimate excuse not to have fiber in big cities, for everyone, at fairly low prices.
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reply to Doctor Olds
Show the proof that you already paid for fiber. Other than making a statement provide your irrefutable proof.

Ugh.. Another person who doesn't know what they're talking about.

Do you understand that the whole mandate for the fees and charges and government subsidies of the RBOCs through the 80s and early 90s was infrastructure build out for things like FTTP and at least ISDN-in-every-home (way back when)? Do you realize that this NEVER HAPPENED?

This was the whole motivation for telcos to even engineer DSL! They could use their old, old, often circa-1960 infrastructure to deliver broadband to "most areas".

We have already paid for the fiber. It's there, for the most part, miles upon miles of dark fiber. This is commonly known and a historical fact. Drive around any suburban neighborhood and you'll see orange or yellow conduits sticking out of the ground and taped off. This is not for to-the-home soft-serve ice cream delivery.

hedyd4u, you're like, way out there or something.

There is a lot of depolyment of FTT-Remote Terminal. Many DSL lines are supported by a fiber being laid to a Remote Terminal with a DSL aggregator (this is the fiber you see in your neighborhood). Each of those Remote Terminals can serve thousands of customers. Where a Central Office may serve 100 Remote Terminals, the same central office serves 100,000s of customers. Laying 100 fibers is not a problem.... laying 100,000 fibers to each home is EXPENSIVE.

And who is responsible for running the fiber within the existing buildings? It doesn't do anyone any good to drop a fiber on their doorstep. Someone has to wire the house, apartment building, office building and office parks.

There have been a few municipalities that have installed their own fiber loops - Palo Alto, CA is one. When they were laying the fiber they offered local business and residents the option to access the fiber - for a monthly fee and a fixed cost to bring the fiber to your location. The monthly cost was $100 for 10Mbps - not bad. The fixed cost was $10,000!!!

I think fiber to the neighborhood, and wireless (WiMAX???) to the home is the best option The fiber to the Remote Terminal is already there - put a Pole and Antenna on the RT - DONE. Plus you get the benefit that your services follow you wherever you go.

The wireless access may possibly be future proof. It would probably be much easier to replace the electronics in a transmitter on a pole than to replace every interface to every fiber to every home?!?!?