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| build the roads if part of the problem is building out the fiber optics to these rural areas, why not spend money to bring FIBER OPTIC CABLES to town hall (or geographical center point)-- then from there, build out the last mile... at some point, either the local municipality can either:
A. run their own muni broadban/telecom company, or B. find a small carrier to provide service & build infrastructure.
Once the fiber optics are in-place, there is much less of a reason to complain that it's not cost effective to build rural broadband if a massive conduit of fiber cable reaches every municipality (town hall, or some central infrastructure point) in the USA!
This is a better goal then sending tens of millions of dollars worth of networking equipment to Hawaii such as what the fcc usf did in the 1990's and the equipment languished for so long in warehouses (sounds familiar, right?) that it became worthless. This kind of mismanagement happens in many parts of the federal government whether the top schmuck is a democrat or republican! |
patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | That already exists. Every CO in america has fiber going to it. Every town hall has fiber going to it, unless the municipality objects to it. T3s are always fiber. The schools all have fiber because of USF. Town halls have fiber because of anti-terrorism money from DHS for CCTVs around town. What about FO connected traffic lights? Same thing with libraries. All these places already have fiber, either from the cable company (yeah, forgot about them?), the ILEC, or regional ISPs with their own fiber or from the state DOT.
The problem is, none of the business fiber owners want to touch residential customers. Residential customers need hand holding, threaten to sue when they get viruses and slow internet speeds, etc. Businesses will pay big money for useless SLAs (cheaper to just refund the month's service charge than pay overtime for weekend fix). Residential customers won't pay more than $100 a month. Also with residential customers, you need to swallow the construction costs, businesses you can charge $100 an hour engineering charges/cost plus billing to set up their fiber optic service. |
