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This is going to fail

Yepp... this is cool "stick it to the man" type of initative. It also falls far short of having much business intelligence around it and doomed to failure without any external involvement.

Meh, I disagree. This is Canada, where indie ISPs are just waiting to get off of Bell DSL...which costs them $20ish per month for the local loop, plus band rate if you don't have telephone service.

So with this fiber service, you could save $25 a month on costs and pass those savings to the customer, with $15-$25 a month 5/800 tiers, and options for MUCH faster connections since we're talking about fiber here. Granted, it may take eight years or so to pay off the fiber line, but in those eight years you might go from 5/800 for $15 to 50/20 for $30 or something crazy like that, that could never be pumped over copper.

With the right marketing and business models, ths could very well work.

reply to MyDogHsFleas
right not a big cost, but remember, the home owner is not paying the 2700 to the isp, they are pay 2700 to teh contractor to put the fiber in the ground, from there house to the local everyone can use co, which in this case is going to be a large building of a patch panel, so really think of it like this, company A, a telco runs fiber from there plant to this new co location, ties into a fiber patch the to a fiber switch to the customers home. Company B a local cable company does the same thing, cost to deploy fiber to these customers, not as much as you would think because chances are they already have fiber in the area that isn't being used, and they would splice the fiber to the new location for the customers homes to tie in. The largest part of the investment would come from buying fiber switches to connect these houses. the incentive for the ISP is we get to run fiber to a single location and not have to pay for each house to get hooked up, and we still get to charge what we would charge users where we had to pay to get the fiber to the house. Makes great sense to me, if i owned the isp, and i had to pay 2700 bucks for each house, i would hold back to, but if i had a chance that 10% for a 400 house development would have that fiber installed, i would be all over it. Having home owners pay the 2700 isn't to make the isp charge less for the service its to get the service into the area, total cost of FTTH is what is killing this in a large scale deployment. Look at FIOS when they first started it, laying fiber in the streets, turning around to go back and run to each house, had they known who wanted service they would have saved big bucks. That guessing game of who is going to want this technology is already done, now all they have to do is "hook them up" and I'm going to assume that in this localized CO building its going to resemble an old school switch board at a telco, plug and play type technology.

reply to iansltx
very true! this could be a great thing for Rocky over at TekSavvy. Something that I have been saying. A great way to get rid of bell. And the best part---he wouldn't really have to build out the last mile! But OH NO! They couldn't have that they still want to ride on the Bell Network.