Though I should note that GCI was my former employer and a well respected MSO and fiber infrastructure owner/operator. They are the smartest major player I've come across, and an all around good bunch of people.
>From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network. -------- Original message -------- From: Warren Bailey <wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> Date: 02/11/2013 4:44 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Stephen Sprunk <step...@sprunk.org>,nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2? Check out GCI's Terranet project. >From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network. -------- Original message -------- From: Stephen Sprunk <step...@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" <mo...@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 -- Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
