Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
 ·Comcast
 ·Embarq Now Century..
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Re: I say again
 In our area several cities are leasing out the top of tall public buildings and standpipes (water towers) to cell carriers. There is plenty of room at many locations for WiMAX equipment. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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said by a333  :Why not put low-frequency WiMax equipment on hilltop towers, and feed THOSE with fiber? Install more RT's, and feed ADSL2+ from them, or RE-ADSL2. Provide grants to cable companies to upgrade to DOCSIS technology. While the terrain argument may apply to higher frequencies, why not use lower ones? Also, the gov't can use LOS-based microwave towers as backhaul to remote areas, then re-distribute service using WiMax or WiFi on a localized basis, from the tower. Then, once there is sufficient ROI, they can upgrade to fiber backhauls, and in the end, full FTTH. Hmm, a muni fiber MAN network, great idea. City can sell/lease fiber strands or wavelengths to ISPs/resellers. And that will encourage investment or the city outright going into WiMAX and cell carrier CAN lease for towers (note word "can", they probably will refuse due to "dog in a manger" market suppression and "not invented here"). Businesses can also lease fiber going back to POPs/NOCs/COs as a T1 alternative. |
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Vchat20
Landing is the REAL challenge
Premium
join:2003-09-16
Warren, OH
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You're forgetting this is fairpoint territory you are talking about. They aren't gonna do squat to improve the situation and if they are as assholeish as they sound, they aren't gonna let anyone else do it without a fight either.
Sad case really. But you ARE right, these are all valid solutions to the problem. Just not gonna happen in the lifetime of anyone living there.
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I swear, some people should have pace-makers installed to free up the resources. Breathing and heart beat taxes their whole system, all of their brain cells wasted on life support.-two bit brains, and the second bit is wasted on parity! ~head_spaz |
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a333
A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY
 ·Cingular Wireless
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to patcat88
Why not put low-frequency WiMax equipment on hilltop towers, and feed THOSE with fiber? Install more RT's, and feed ADSL2+ from them, or RE-ADSL2. Provide grants to cable companies to upgrade to DOCSIS technology.
While the terrain argument may apply to higher frequencies, why not use lower ones? Also, the gov't can use LOS-based microwave towers as backhaul to remote areas, then re-distribute service using WiMax or WiFi on a localized basis, from the tower. Then, once there is sufficient ROI, they can upgrade to fiber backhauls, and in the end, full FTTH. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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Yeah, if you have electricity, you have a right to all other pole fed utilities, this is just insane you dont. |
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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
·Comcast
·Embarq Now Century..
|  Consider the difference in the cost per mile to install fiber compared to the cost per mile to build a two lane road. If the government can afford to build roads in rural areas it can afford to install fiber along those roads. See the link below. It describes how the infrastructure was created to deliver electric power and telephone service to rural customers in the 1930's.
»newdeal.feri.org/tva/tva10.htm
Remember that in the 1930's the robber barons that owned the private electric power industry strongly opposed development of rural electric power infrastructure by the government. The Telecommunications and CATV Power Barons are using the same techniques that the electric power barons used to prevent the development of a rural broadband infrastructure even though they do not want to spend the money to deploy fiber to every home in America. |
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