On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Naslund, Steve <snasl...@medline.com>wrote:
> [...] > The economic reality is that if I build out an expensive infrastructure I > have to pile on as many high priced services as possible to order to > maximize the revenue from it. A customer who does not balk at a $200 a > month TV/voice/Internet service is not going to be happy getting a bill of > $50 a month for a fiber loop. The services are what the customer really > wants and where you can add bells and whistle with little added expense. > The infrastructure is the expensive part. > Oh good lord, if anyone could deliver a fiber loop to my property for $50/month, I would prepay the next 20 years right now to make it happen. Heck, I'd pay 10x that for a fiber loop to the property, if I could have it cross connected to the ISP of my choice at the far end. I think you might underestimate what people would be willing to pay for competitive infrastructure access to their property. Conversely, I'd be happy to pay $5,000 in NRC installation charges to get a fiber run to the property, with a correspondingly lower MRC. Matt
