Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

[Warren Bailey <wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com>]

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-------- Original message --------
From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen () sprunk org>
Date: 02/11/2013 4:37 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?


On 11-Feb-13 18:23, Warren Bailey wrote:

> On 2/11/13 4:16 PM, "Masataka Ohta" <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp> wrote:
> > Scott Helms wrote:
> > > IMO if you can't pay for the initial build quickly and run it efficiently then your chances of long term success 
> > > are very low.
> > That is not a business model for infrastructure such as gas, electricity, CATV, water and fiber network, all of 
> > which need long term planning and investments.
> Nearly all of the industries you mentioned below receive some type of local or federal/government funding. If I was 
> going to build some kind of access network, I would be banging on the .gov door asking for grants and low interest 
> loans to help roll out broadband to remote areas.
I followed the link in a recent email here to the details on the Maine Fiber Co, and their web site indicates they got 
started with $7M in private funding--and a $25M grant from the feds for improving service to rural areas.  That 
radically changes the economics, just as I'm sure it did for other utilities.

S

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