[ One of a batch of replies to today's traffic; I was busy yanking a 750GB drive out of the grave all day. --jra ]
----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com> [ me: ] > > It rings true to me, in general, and I would go that way... but > > there is > > a sting in that tail: Can I reasonably expect that Road Runner will > > in fact > > be technically equipped and inclined to meet me to get my residents > > as > > subscribers? Especially if they're already built HFC in much to all > > of > > my municipality? > > It doesn't actually matter. You don't necessarily need to be the only > wholesale > offering, you just need to be open to all service providers. This > means that > if Road Runner wants to pay for their own infrastructure instead of > using yours, > then that will increase their costs and likely make it harder for them > to compete > with ISPs (and other services) that choose to use your infrastructure. It does actually matter, Owen, for the specific build I'm looking at, since *Road Runner already has the city built*; they can do GHz CATV with all the toys, and at least 25/5 cablemodem, if not 50/15. That's pretty competitive, and already includes triple play. What sort of money a build needs to make is of course largely a question of how good a sales job you did to your city commission, but I shouldn't think a small, largely residential, community is gonna make it on *just* businesses and geeks. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
