Estimates to bring FTTH to all of America is in the $100 to $300B range. So yes, the $7.2B is a drop in the bucket.
Frank -----Original Message----- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:s...@donelan.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:53 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Fred Baker wrote: > If it's about stimulus money, I'm in favor of saying that broadband implies > fiber to the home. That would provide all sorts of stimuli to the economy - > infrastructure, equipment sales, jobs digging ditches, and so on. I could > pretty quickly argue myself into suggesting special favors for deployment of > DNSSEC, multicast, and IPv6. As in, use the stimulus money to propel a leap > forward, not just waste it. Broadband stimulus money = $7,200,000,000 Housing units in USA (2000) = 115,904,641 Stimulus money per housing unit = $62.12 one-time What definition of "broadband" can you achieve for that amount of money? Or for rural housing units (2000) = 25,938,698 Stimulus money per rural housing unit = $277.58 one-time What definition of "broadband" can you achieve for that amount of money in a rural build-out? How much will fiber to the home cost in a rural area?
