[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - broadband

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:52:27PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Bob Kline<bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The average cost to run a twisted pair today
> > > is about $2,000.  But it's a long term investment,
> > > and the phone or cable companies could
> > > amortise the cost over 20 years or more.  A
> > > fiber could be retrofitted for that much, on
> > > average, and less in many cases.
> >
> > Twisted pair 20 years ago was cat 3.  Amortizing the cost of a cat 3
> > line in 2009 would be a waste.  Even amortizing the cost of a 100+
> > pair bundle more than five years is silly, considering the high risk
> > of loss of capital due to back hoe fade and the like.
> >
> > Probably true.  But the infrastructure is
> largely there to implement fiber to the home.
> Even outfits like Comcast and AT&T already
> run fiber much of the way.
> 
> Of course Comcast would figure out some way
> to screw it up.  One really wants Verizon, but
> that's nowhere on the horizon.   That I know of,
> FiOS tiers are 25, 50, and 100 Mbps, and the
> prices are pretty nominal compared to what
> one gets from Comcast.  $35 a month for 25 Mbps
> I believe.
> 
>     -- Bob

Just keep telling ourselves, "it's coming...it's coming..."
-- 
john-thomas
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