FTTH Council's '100Mbps Nation' > yeah, but...

yeah, but...

How about we get off the download side and look at UPLOADS which have been lacking for years!
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You can never be too rich, too thin or have too much Bandwidth

reply to Asmodeus
If we use Verizon's FIOS cost of about $2000 per home times 110 million US residences the bill is $220 US billion. A lot of money to be sure, but not impossible.

One needs to look at this as an investment. What will the return in investment be? We used the Cold War to justify the Interstate highway system. Future Economic growth will be based on knowledge, and collaboration. A well connected population is a prerequisite for living in the information age.

One needs to be careful not to invest in new technology too soon - technology is immature and expensive.

One also needs to be careful not to invest too late or others will have already figured out how to exploit the technology.

Seems to me now is the time to adopt an Interstate highway type initiative to wire the nation. 100 Mbps is easily doable over fiber and is well suited to massive data transfers and will easily support HDTV.

Once the bit delivery mechanism in place private enterprise will be able to exploit it creating new business models and great wealth.

/Tom

That $2000 can easily be reduced. Have courts invalidate key patents to "spur" competition, grandfather copper networks/take down, switch USF to ONLY pay for fiber, pull money out ones ass (print it, bond it, depreciate it, loan it, etc) or just pull some more money out of national debt. Oh, and we can increase the War On Drug, and War On Wifi Theft, to get more prison labor to install FTTP, they are cheaper than mexicans.