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> Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line Author kind of glosses over this, like it's the setup to the point. But it's obvious that THIS is the point.
by phendrenad2 4mo ago
> Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line
Author kind of glosses over this, like it's the setup to the point. But it's obvious that THIS is the point. The government did the hard work of running 25Gbit-capable fibre (4 of them!) to each and every house, and the ISP just has to run (25 * NumHouses)Gbit-capable fiber to the POP.
In the United States, which has 250x the land as Switzerland but only 30x the population, running fibre to every house is therefore 1/8th as economical. We have bigger problems. Is Flint, Michigan going to get fibre before they have safe water?
- lxgr 4mo agoAre you arguing that a country as large and wealthy as the US can only solve one problem at a time or that fast, affordable Internet access is somehow a luxury problem?
- phendrenad2 3mo agoI'm saying that if it's 8x as costly to run fibre to every American house, then it requires 8x the political willpower.
- Hikikomori 4mo agoAre all Americans living in single person houses spread out evenly over the entire land area?
- defrost 4mo agoIs there any other way to ranch spherical cows?
- Hikikomori 4mo agoHad to google it but that's pretty funny.