'No Incentive' For Fiber > Thanks for the support

reply to sherpaboy

Re: Thanks for the support

said by Speedy8:

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I'd pay the $2000 to have my own home wired.

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If they ever think that people will spend $2000 for their own FTTH they had better also expect those same people will not be willing to pay any monthly fee higher than what AOL charges or less. That is a tall order in costs after all. Then again if they do it right with none of that hidden cost garbage that might just be a way to get some homes connected.
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reply to oliphant5
"It's not that wild of concept. People pay that much for HDTV, for a Spa, commercial stove/oven. If Inet is a huge hobby or you run a home business paying 2-G's for FTTH is a valued home improvement."

It's a wild concept because $2K is not the cost of wiring a single home; it's the per-home cost of wiring ALL homes. Big difference.

Since that's the case you're right...$2K at the volume price is TOO much.

reply to Agent 86
$2K is not the cost of wiring a single home; it's the per-home cost of wiring ALL homes. Big difference.

This might be a dumb question but what do you mean by the sentence above?

$2k is the volume discount meaning if you were the only one to get FTTH it would cost WAY more than $2K to do it. If you were to wire everyone the average per home cost would be $2K per.
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I doubt that $2000 per household cost in volume is entirely accurate. Could just be SBC fudging the numbers enough to make it sound like a money pit.
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True on that one, with SBC'S greedy people.