Scott Helms wrote:
>>> Numbers? Examples?
>> Greenfield SS and PON deployment costs in Japan was already shown.
> Japan has one of the highest population densities of major economies in the
The examples are in rural area and I already stated population
density in English.
>> No, the only reason to insist on PON is to make L1 unbundling
>> not feasible.
> I don't know what conspiracy theory you're ascribing to here, but this is
> incorrect.
PON being more expensive than SS, that is the only explanation.
>> No, SS is cheaper than PON without exception.
> Prove it.
See above or below.
>> If the initial density of subscribers is high, SS is fine.
>>
>> If it is not, initially, most electric equipment, OE port,
>> fibers, splitters and a large closures containing the splitters
>> of PON can not be shared by two or more subscribers, which means
>> PON incurs much more material and labor cost for each initial
>> subscriber than SS.
Masataka Ohta
