Re: residential/smb internet access in 2019 - help?

[Ross Tajvar <ross () tajvar io>]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 12:30 AM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho () gmail com> wrote:

> Agreed....this is why monopolies are bad and municipal fiber is good.
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> It's not like municipal fiber has some magic spell to make last mile
> affordable though. On OP's instance he would run into the same issue and
> would be paying that five figure amount to bring FTTP. Municipal fiber is
> only good if you happen to live where a municipality has already buried
> conduit.
>
> I'm not saying we should support monopolistic practices, but "municipal
> fiber everywhere!" isn't necessarily the answer either.

That's fair. What I really meant, and didn't take the time to think through
and express properly, was this: financing a large fiber buildout like it's
a long-term investment, rather than something that should make back its
capital cost in 1-3 years, gets fiber to more people. Most commercial ISPs
do not want to do this because they want immediate profit. Municipalities
are used to making long-term infrastructure investments (like bridges,
etc.) and are more amenable to doing it with fiber.

Even if there were a municipality which had done a fiber buildout near OP's
desired house, he may have still run into the same issue of no fiber being
close enough to be financially viable. But the more fiber plant there is,
the less likely that scenario becomes.

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