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building new infrastructure is much harder now than decades ago. It's been much easier for the companies to retain infrastructure
by FT_intern 10y ago
building new infrastructure is much harder now than decades ago. It's been much easier for the companies to retain infrastructure
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoBut everyone moving to fiber IS building new infrastructure. Sure, they're continuing to cash in on telephone wire and coax, but fiber is new infrastructure. And Google discovered that you CAN'T just make money deploying Gigabit fiber for $60 a month. Getting even a 50 Mbps fiber circuit around here is hundreds of dollars a month.
- delecti 10y agoMuch (most?) "new" fiber is just companies lighting up existing dark fiber infrastructure.
- newjersey 10y agoThe expensive part is "the last mile". I imagine laying down cable on the side of the I-70 is easier than laying fiber in Manhattan under the pavement, above the utilities, and above the subway system. Or finding space to put up those boxes to "land" the fiber optic cables for a neighborhood.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoI know in some areas, whole towns are wired up with glass that isn't in use, but around here, I regularly see trenches being dug to run fiber. And nowhere near "to the home" yet even, but along major roads, to industrial parks, etc.