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Too late. Too expensive cable. Too big in bundles. Too slow. Fiber cable is almost free, bundles occupy almost nothing. The electronics are not that expensive

Too late. Too expensive cable. Too big in bundles. Too slow. Fiber cable is almost free, bundles occupy almost nothing. The electronics are not that expensive anymore as they are mass produced. Fiber optics fusion splicers used to cost tens of thousands of dollars. Today they are under a thousand of inflated dollars.

BHSPitMonkey 3y ago
Coax that's already been run to the home and pulled through walls is also "almost" free. Perhaps even moreso. I switched to fiber at my current home the moment it became available, but until then I enjoyed being fairly well-served by gigabit (down) cable over DOCSIS 3.1 on the infrastructure that was ready to use on move-in day.
orev 3y ago
You seem to be missing that the biggest expense is actually running and burying the wires themselves. Coax is already deployed in huge parts of the US, and it’s not easy or fast to rewire the whole country with something new.
- robocat 3y ago
  No reason a state couldn't decide to. New Zealand (approximately equal to Oregon) decided to do it in 2011 and finished the planned fibre rollout in about a decade. This was a public-private partnership (funded by government but not rolled-out nor owned by our government). The existing cable in my city is now unused (not sure how their incentives were structured, but I couldn't sign up to cable 4 years ago even though house was already wired for it) I originally thought it was a dumb idea - state funding for netflix - however covid showed the value of the fibre connections. https://sp.chorus.co.nz/stories/ultra-fast-broadband-ufb-ufb22-roll-out https://sp.chorus.co.nz/stories/ultra-fast-broadband-ufb-ufb... The second phase of the UFB rollout, called UFB2, means that 85% of New Zealanders will have fibre access by the end of 2022

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Too late. Too expensive cable. Too big in bundles. Too slow. Fiber cable is almost free, bundles occupy almost nothing. The electronics are not that expensive

by cracrecry 3y ago

BHSPitMonkey 3y ago
Coax that's already been run to the home and pulled through walls is also "almost" free. Perhaps even moreso. I switched to fiber at my current home the moment it became available, but until then I enjoyed being fairly well-served by gigabit (down) cable over DOCSIS 3.1 on the infrastructure that was ready to use on move-in day.
orev 3y ago
You seem to be missing that the biggest expense is actually running and burying the wires themselves. Coax is already deployed in huge parts of the US, and it’s not easy or fast to rewire the whole country with something new.
- robocat 3y ago
  No reason a state couldn't decide to. New Zealand (approximately equal to Oregon) decided to do it in 2011 and finished the planned fibre rollout in about a decade. This was a public-private partnership (funded by government but not rolled-out nor owned by our government). The existing cable in my city is now unused (not sure how their incentives were structured, but I couldn't sign up to cable 4 years ago even though house was already wired for it) I originally thought it was a dumb idea - state funding for netflix - however covid showed the value of the fibre connections. https://sp.chorus.co.nz/stories/ultra-fast-broadband-ufb-ufb22-roll-out https://sp.chorus.co.nz/stories/ultra-fast-broadband-ufb-ufb... The second phase of the UFB rollout, called UFB2, means that 85% of New Zealanders will have fibre access by the end of 2022