 boethiusBoo-YahPremium
join:2002-01-28
Winters, CA | reply to ronpin
Re: FTTH dare-devil fiber install -- worth-it? 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. |
