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* Google, Facebook or Amazon will offer a fiber to the home network soon. This would be a nightmare working with various municipalities and their right-of-ways
by chopsueyar 16y ago
* Google, Facebook or Amazon will offer a fiber to the home network soon.
This would be a nightmare working with various municipalities and their right-of-ways. No two situations would be the same. Anytime a road is repaved, the fiber has to come out and be replaced. Lots of maintenance, too.
* Advances in Spectrum technology cost/availability will offer the Gig-link
Not possible. Has nothing to do with Moore's law. Imagine a family of 5, each watching a separate live 1080p stream. Now, how many people in a town can watch a unique 1080p stream simultaneously?
* Municipal networks are seen as the next New Deal and massive technical infrastructure projects are sponsored by the government because they do know how to supply funding for infrastructure and don't understand how to fund startups.
Yes, this will save the United States. I'm serious. This is the only viable option.
- phlux 16y agoI think that you will be surprised with respect to the fiber to the home projects in the near future.
- thaumaturgy 16y agoSome newer housing developments have fiber-to-the-home, with blazingly fast internet access in perpetuity, included in the price of the home. I have no idea how the financials actually work on that. I don't remember what the speed test was, but I half-wondered if it had malfunctioned somehow because I'd never seen anything like it in a residential area. That said, I suspect that very few people are going to get that kind of access relative to the population as a whole. The U.S. is pretty big, and there are a lot of people in areas that simply aren't feasible to do expensive build-outs. (I live in one such area.)