DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
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join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
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| reply to veloslave
Re: ADSL2, bonding, market areas, CLEC and kitchen sink
Yup - for each area we're serving, we've got to lease space in the CO and build our own racks and populate them with power equipment, DSLAMs and routers. The cost is roughly $50,000 to $100,000 per central office.
In the near term we're building many of the Sonoma County central offices:
Santa Rosa (two offices)
Petaluma
Sebastopol
Healdsburg
Windsor
Forestville (tiny town, but well situated CO and good competitive situation)
Notably the Cotati, Rohnert Park and Sonoma COs are not on this list. The reason is that the COs are far, far away from the population centers, so even if we're in them, there are very few people who would be within range of the product.
All of San Francisco is also in the road map - nine COs there.
Then, a bit of a surprise - we've completed our analysis and found that Santa Cruz, Berkeley and Albany are all very good potential markets, and we'll be building these as well.
The sum of this will bring us to 20 COs, and probably keep us busy for nine months or so. After that, we'll see how it's going and make decisions from there!
As for pricing of the bonded product, all of the product pricing is still being designed. The business product pricing will come out first, likely in the next week or so. The consumer ADSL2+ products will probably have pricing released in 30 days, give or take.
-Dane |
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dodgemedia
join:2005-05-28
Fairfield, CA | How about the CO in cordelia??? |
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xan_user
join:2004-11-18
Windsor, CA
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said by DaneJasper  :..... Santa Rosa (two offices) Petaluma Sebastopol Healdsburg Windsor Forestville (tiny town, but well situated CO and good competitive situation) .... Is that in order installation? i.e. how long for windsor?
The folks in the boonies of Fo-ville will be lovin it! |
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DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
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join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
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| The order is likely to be Sonoma County and East Bay cities all pretty much around the same time, then SF and Santa Cruz to follow. Each one takes time to deploy, integrate and test, so it won't be all at once, and the specific per-city order isn't known yet.
-Dane |
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DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
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join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
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| reply to dodgemedia
said by dodgemedia :How about the CO in cordelia??? Based only upon the overhead photo at maps.google.com, I would say that Cordelia is not the type of location that's likely to see these products. Sorry!
The criteria are density, customer proximity to the central office (which is sometimes related to density, but other times affected by really odd telco cable routing), and our current customer count in the market.
Berkeley, Albany and Santa Cruz are all examples of markets with very high density and low cable lengths - the reason is the same - both are sandwiched between the bay or ocean and the mountains. This creates a dense population center without any sprawl.
-Dane |
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