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Re: Capital vs. Operating Costs That happens when you price it as pretty much status qua and give pretty much no incentive for making people want to change.
Offer more speed for a better price than what is currently available to a vast majority of their market and people will take it. Because they can and the underlying infrastructure is cheaper so they will probably make more per user than they currently do. But that of course would induce the big "C" word (competition) in their markets and they dont want that, nor do their cable sweet hearts.
Instead, they want to play a game of smoke and mirrors. |
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| Fiber also is not as expensive or hard to install it as people think. This is not the early 90's anymore..
I had fiber ran to my house when I use to run a business out of here from tw telecom (NOT Time Warner) back in early 2000. It's dark now and no one can use it but them so useless now that I don't need but they ran it from the main ring off the road about 1.5 miles and at most bore 8 five foot deep holes and this includes crossing about 60 house driveways, 4 streets and 4 turns...
All done underground near utility power and water... My cost? $0
6 strand fiber.. They ran into no issues. Just wish could activate on someone else now that I don't have them lol (they are a tier 1 provider so expensive and I am not doing the same business)
Anyway the cost issue is only a problem if they use some over priced contractors or don't do it in house. It was also all done in under 2 days after the survey was done might I add... A crew of about 4 did it total. they laid the conduit and after pulled the cable through using a quad bike tied to some string lol
So if this was in early 2000 I would imagine it can be done similar still, heck probably better... The hole cutting a slot for that cable like the other method shows is faster because don't have to wait to bore holes and for a hydraulic hammer to bang through the group but the way mine was done has 0 visible impact on anything, nothing was cut, all digging was done in a yard and grass replaced when done.
Now grant it doing this for 100 houses might not be easy but once the furthest one is done you have your path now and can easily run fiber down the entire street. You only need to hook up when someone orders. |
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| It cost you $0. It would have cost them thousands. And hooking up your house is much different than hooking up a neighborhood. |
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| I would be willing to bet it cost them nothing and cost Anon thousands in the end.
Being you and I both know they dont give their service out for free and surely made up the cost and then some in the price of his service. I would say they even received more profit on that with the expedited depreciation schedule they get to use now to show more expenses and thus reduce their tax write off on a line that will probably be there and used (if someone subscribes) for the next 50-100 years. |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA
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said by Skippy25 
Offer more speed for a better price than what is currently available to a vast majority of their market and people will take it. Because they can and the underlying infrastructure is cheaper so they will probably make more per user than they currently do. But that of course would induce the big "C" word (competition) in their markets and they dont want that, nor do their cable sweet hearts.
Instead, they want to play a game of smoke and mirrors.
The underlying infrastructure is NOT cheaper.
The competition will come from LTE, which will make even fewer people willing to buy the fiber product. |
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