N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| $100,000 a bit pricey
A $100K a square mile's a lot of money to spend for a city (Philadelphia) that can't educate it's children without the intervention of the state, and talks about closing firehouses on a yearly basis.
What's the point of having broadband if your laptop is smoldering trash???
I have nothing against muni projects per se, and I see a genuine need for it in a lot of areas. Neither am I dismissing the service this could bring to the poorer areas of the city, I'm simply asking myself why a city that constantly pisses and moans they don't have enough money to sustain basic social services is getting into the business of running a broadband network... |
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tapeloop
1959. I try to kick the ball. I miss.
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join:2004-06-27
Airstrip One
| Have to agree with you there Wacoyle. While I think that it's onerous for Verizon to hijack state legislation, and while it'd be nice to have citywide wi-fi, it'd be even nicer to not have a gaping hole in South Street bridge. 
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verolom
join:2002-03-23
Eagleville, PA
 ·Comcast
| On the other token it would be nice to stay on the 8th floor of the Hyatt Regency and not having to pay extra $10 per day for i-net access 
I assume they include the rights to position the access points, the wired infrastructure (signal, power), network access, operation and maintenance.
Yep, pricey... On the other side if say 20 people share their $50 a month cable connection to cover that square mile, that's only $1000 a month... What am I missing? |
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verolom
join:2002-03-23
Eagleville, PA
·Comcast
| Well, at 300 feet range (424 feet square), one needs more like 155 APs to cover a square mile (5280 feet per mile) * $50 a month that's $7750 a month, times 60 months (5 years) that's $465,000.
So maybe the muni solution is cheaper  |
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jbkinstl
@swbell.ne
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Even if you use Jupiter Research's figure of $150,000 per square mile over five years, that works out to $30,000 per square mile per year. There could easily be 3,000 people living within a square mile in an urban area. That works out to $10/year/person, which is less than $1/month/person.
So, how many people will actually subscribe in order to calculate the cost per subscriber? At a cost of less than $1/month I don't think there should be a subscription fee. The cost of the fee collection and administration wouldn't make it worth while. Would a 50% subscription rate for free broadband wireless be feasible? What would the value to the community be for that? |
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