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- 10-09-2009 07:34 PM #1
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"$10 billion takes fiber to every school, hospital in the US"
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Sounds like a good use of Gates' billion$... Or are these Buffet's?
Something similar was discussed in the War Zone some 20 months ago
http://www.satelliteguys.us/hd-dvd-b...h-us-home.html
There the price tag was $100B to fiber optic every US household...
If the Gates Foundation finances the first project it might kick start the second...
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- 10-09-2009 09:07 PM #2
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Well AT&T is spending $18 billion this year on wireless upgrades (by their press releases). They are building a couple thousand towers, the rest is to run fiber to all their towers for backhaul. I believe they have about 100k towers. I bet that the number of AT&T cell towers is on the same order of magnatude as schools and hospitals.
- 10-10-2009 08:17 AM #3
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- 10-10-2009 02:41 PM #5
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A couple more projects like this plus Gates' money and the US map will have half a million fiber connected points. To implement this will take a few years.
Originally Posted by mike123abc 
By then WiMax, LTE or whatever replaces it should take care of the last mile for those that can't get fiber directly into their homes (i.e. metropolitan areas).
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- 10-10-2009 03:10 PM #6
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You already are paying for it... They tax all the phones for this type stuff. Originally Posted by ramy
- 10-10-2009 03:47 PM #7
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- 10-10-2009 08:10 PM #8
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If I had to guess, I would guess that 95+% of houses in the US have fiber within a mile of them. The stuff runs everywhere, the problem of course is still the last mile.
- 10-11-2009 09:35 AM #9
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City schools here have had fiber for the last 5 years or more. Heck even the traffic lights have a fiber network
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Part of the problem is that there are many fiber lines, even in rural areas, but the phone companies want too much to use them. The FCC is just now looking at how much those companies are charging since Verizon and AT&T have the majority of the backhaul bandwidth out there and they ware wanting better pricing instead of monopolistic type of practices making it unaffordable to those needing access to it.
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