Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Stephen Sprunk wrote:

> The fiber plant would presumably be paid for with 30-year bonds, same as
> any other municipal infrastructure (eg. water and sewer lines--the real
> "pipes"), for which interest rates are currently running around the rate
> of inflation.  There is no need to pay them off quickly.

In addition, as PON is even less efficient initially when
subscriber density is low and there are few subscribers to
share a field splitter (unless extremely lengthy drop cables
are used, which costs a lot), PON is slower to pay them off.

                                                Masataka Ohta