| Never happen here... This is STILL basically muni-fiber, the only difference being individuals are suckered into paying the full cost if they want service, but otherwise the problems that plague mini-fiber will be present here.
Reputable companies like AT&T, VZ, Comcast, et al., will not be attracted to this either. The products they offer require end-to-end control, and this doesn't fit the bill. |
| yea they will still need equipment in the home for fiber tv service, computers without fiber cards, all the equipment to convert light data to electrical data, Major Providers pay more in the actual wiring to the home when it comes to fiber, think of it like this, if they were to light up the whole neighbor hood, they would spend the 2,700 plus the cost of getting it there, so figure 40 houses want the service 2700*40=108,000 plus add the cost of the fiber to the neighborhood which depending on distance is where the cost would come from, so lets use 4 miles as the example, and that 4 miles was to cost roughly 8,000,that would be $116,000. Now if the homes that wanted fiber to the house service covered the last mile, the isp saves 108,000 and it only cost them 8g's to make much more, there investment is paid off faster, cause they didn't spend as much. And please remember the last mile is a term in the industry to describe the connection from the ISP to the customer, not a physical mile of fiber, and remember that fiber doesn't break down like copper over time, the local cable company here in az where i live has used the same fiber that connects the nodes to the head end for 20 years, and the only reason they are changing it is because they are re doing there entire network to gear up for a fiber loop between all there headends in the are, and a docsis 3.0 launch |
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| what do you mean by having fiber cards? WTF! VZ is NOT using fiber cards in computers for their FiOS instead its actually Cat5 from the ONT to the router and then wifi to the computers or cat5 or 6. Who in the hell would want to spend the $$$$ on a fiber card! Get real!
Plus its not actually Muni! The only ones that WANT the service PAY to have their fiber line installed. Which means they wouldn't have people like you or JasonOD bitching about paying for it if they didnt want to.
It's a win, win for both the non-wanting people and the people that want it and a win-win for the providers. They do not have to pay for the last mile EVER! They eliminate spending a BIG CHUNK OF MONEY ON IT! |
