said by Philmatic:Seriously, I would like a study to be commissioned to determine how much it would cost to wire up every apartment complex, house, farm, double-wide, high-rise, school and library to fiber.
How much would that be? 500 billion? 1 trillion? Isn't that worth it? How much could the government make BACK by leasing or selling the lines to multiple carriers so they can compete on it?
Fiber to every residence in america would mean voice (VoIP), video (IPTV), data (Internet) to every residence. They could literally replace all copper based services (POTS, DSL, T-Carrier access) with a much faster and less problematic back haul. OTA could even go away conceivably.
In a perfect world, the public networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, etc) could be combined with local phone access and 1mbps internet for free or cheap as a "Lifeline" service. That way public safety would still be in place without the use of OTA or POTS.
It can be done, just depends on how much.
I've often wondered about that too. I don't usually like the idea of involving government, but I don't see how else it's going to work. The government after all made rural electrification happen. If it wasn't for that, how long would rural customers have had to wait until they got electricity from the power company?
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