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That's something that you should bring up with your local government. It is your local government that is blocking roll outs of FTTH. Even at 10Mbit/sec conges
by notyourday 9y ago
That's something that you should bring up with your local government. It is your local government that is blocking roll outs of FTTH.
Even at 10Mbit/sec congestion will be at the core. Comcast currently claims to have 22.3 million internet customers. At 10 Mbit/sec it means 223.3 MILLION megabit per second that needed to be handed off to transit. It is not possible.
- wtallis 9y ago> That's something that you should bring up with your local government. It is your local government that is blocking roll outs of FTTH. That's definitely not true in my specific case, and probably isn't true all that often in the general case. Deploying FTTH to existing paying customers who already have halfway decent infrastructure doesn't have a very compelling short-term return on investment even when the local government is doing everything they can to encourage it.
- notyourday 9y agoThey are blocking competitors from installing fiber via franchise agreements or requirement that entire municipality is wired. By doing that your municipality is preventing price competition on the physical last mile which means that Comcast has no need to upgrade service.