 tschmidtPremium,MVM
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| reply to Rob Froelich
Re: Municipal/Community Broadband said by Rob Froelich:
In the interest of not getting anyones hackles up, because I was going to post that I disagreed that technical issues are often bigger ones than financial, I won't post a big long contradiction to tschmidts previous post. I don't however disagree entirely, because I can think of many areas where broadband service via dsl and cable is readily available that FTTH from a local public or private overbuilder is both technically and financially unfeasible.
I didn't mean to trivialize the financial issues - especially since we have not progressed to that stage yet. Seeing the wide diversity of systems already deployed indicates it is financially feasible in a wide variety of situations.
The technical and business issues seem daunting I assume once we resolve that getting the money to build it will be relatively easy.
I think a brokerage service would be extremely valuable. In many cases Ronpin's turnkey approach would be very attractive since towns typically do not have the technical or manpower to manage the project. This allows the town to treat FTTH almost the same as a CATV franchise. |
