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I would gladly pay the $100 to get my home upgraded. Doesn't it seem like individuals or even communities should be able to round up the money to pay for the up
by dkasper 18y ago
I would gladly pay the $100 to get my home upgraded. Doesn't it seem like individuals or even communities should be able to round up the money to pay for the upgrade themselves? It's basically like we are at the mercy of the cable/telcos until they decide it's cost effective for them to upgrade people. It's not like a hard drive where you can pay extra money to get something better, you have no options.
- wmf 18y agoThe $100 is probably an amortized number, assuming that your whole neighborhood gets upgraded. e.g. It costs $50,000 to upgrade your cable node which serves 500 customers. If only 50 people round up the money to pay for the upgrade they'll need $1,000 each, which isn't as palatable.
- kd5bjo 18y agoAmortize that $1000 over two years, though, and the upgrade costs less than $50/mo, which starts to sound reasonable again. If all 500 customers paid, it only takes a price increase of $5/month to pay off the upgrade in two years.
- wmf 18y agoYeah, I'm a believer in the concept of customer-owned broadband, but the ISPs are stuck in a model where they think they have to accept all the risk of upgrades.