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Re: ... said by Abe Froman:
Too bad the FCC won't let the phone company invest without having to give sleazy parasites access to their own investments.
Cry me a river.
That's PAID access. And someone wanting to do what you always say competitors should do, "build it themselves". Give some credit where it's due.
And not really relevant to the discussion at hand.
If a municipality has been poorly served by telco AND/OR cable companies, it's because they don't see money in it. If we're talking about a little podunk town, you're not going to see Worldcom or Covad coming in looking to get some UNEs if the telco all of a sudden decides to start some broad FTTH or other radical new bandwidth delivery.
Assuming some of the costs stated are accurate, for example the $3K neighborhood per home, that's really not that bad if we're talking fiber to the home. Over 10 years that's $300 per home per year plus interest, and a fiber deployment should be viable for far longer than 10 years. Some municipalities charge upwards of $300 per year to haul feces from the crapper to the sewage treatment plant... Not implying the internet is a total cesspool yet, but it's just not that huge a cost over time. In some rural areas, high speed internet and modern phone service could be a wonderful boost for up and coming business. |
