 ronpinImagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana | reply to LazMan
Re: FTTH dare-devil fiber install -- worth-it? Yes, Risk with a Capital R
*B-U-T* 
As a "poor" startup -- it kinda made sense, to "risk it all" on the very cheapest installation method possible. You can always "upgrade" if and when the customer base allows it. That logic would make no sense at all to a well capitalized company like AT&T or Verizon.
Given that AT&T has been such a pussy about actual FTTH -- maybe even they would consider a loose partnership with someone brave enough to overlay their UVerse "last-mile" with this stuff?
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 boethiusBoo-YahPremium
join:2002-01-28
Winters, CA | said by ronpin:Given that AT&T has been such a pussy about actual FTTH -- maybe even they would consider a loose partnership with someone brave enough to overlay their UVerse "last-mile" with this stuff? Partner? I doubt it. Ma Bell is at least 20 years away from FTTH I'd estimate, if it ever fully gets there. FiOS is great but a blip on the map. Street-to-street fiber is a massive, daunting enterprise, as I'm sure you know. Not impossible - just huge. U-verse is a kludgey hedge against FTTH and maintains the copper hegemony.
If you could build a viable business around FTTH I could see Ma Bell buying you out however.
I'd see what Surewest is doing with FTTH. They are perhaps the only significant non-Bell telco source doing anything major with FTTH outside of small municipalities and "elite" cherry-picked subdivisions. If you could bend the ear of one of their field engineers for a day you'd probably find out more about the realities of deploying FTTH - trenching techniques, hardware being utilized, etc. - then you could browsing the web.
That said, Surewest IS a telco (albeit a small one) with more financial resources than the average individual trying guerrilla FTTH and they DID pick up an existing FTTH network for pennies on the dollar. |
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ronpinImagine Reality
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Nirvana | heh-heh -- yeah that's it! (is that copyrighted?)
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