Re: what is the cost of bb deployment

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Karl Auerbach <karl () cavebear com>
Date: October 2, 2008 9:38:06 PM EDT
To: Tom Bleha <tbleha () earthlink net>
Cc: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] what is the cost of bb deployment

David Farber wrote:

> Tom Bleha <tbleha () earthlink net>
> From: Date: October 2, 2008 7:05:48 PM EDT

> If we expect to have nationwide broadband, if would be helpful to  
> have an answer.  Does anyone on the IP list have a good estimate for  
> the cost of:
>  -- nationwide fiber broadband (reaching 98% of the population or  
> so) and
>  -- nationwide ultrafast (100 mbps+) wireless?

Much depends on the time scale.  If we want it yesterday it will be  
expensive.  But if we can piggypack onto the normal time frame of  
digging up roads and people's yards and building remodels then it  
might not be all that expensive.

When I was on the ICANN board I used to meet local government  
officials and I'd ask them whether their country or city had a plan to  
add conduits for fiber to their building codes and to install such  
conduits when they did routine maintenance on roads and such?

I realize that a non-trivial effort in standardizing the conduits,  
junction points, etc etc is required.  And I've heard that the IEEE  
has been working on this, but I don't know any details.

One of the things which we don't often recognize is the discipline  
that Ma Bell brought to the deployment of local loop stuff at the  
edges.  Any plan to deploy fiber should take a good deal of time to  
learn from the telco folks how to do it so that it doesn't become a  
maintenance nightmare.

And one more thing - before anything is laid, the long-term rights of  
the public to use and perhaps to own, along with their cost  
obligations, should be nailed down with total clarity.

                --karl--





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