As an ISP, we're interested. Just tough to get developers to respond to us. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2025 5:51:45 PM Subject: Re: New home builders without wires On Mon, 30 Dec 2024, Brandon Martin wrote:
But yeah, I'm of the impression that anything we'd colloquially call a "mansion" (which is much bigger than what the real estate agents would call one) is probably going to have dedicated service of some sort. The same goes for larger hotels, though smaller (and low-rate) ones usually just go with small-business consumer access mechanisms.
I'm not worried about the 400 mega-billionaires. If a certain mega-billionaire wants to build a company town in Brownsville Texas with ZERO terrestrial communication alternatives according to the FCC Broadband Map (no cable, no fiber, not even 5G cellular fixed wireless), you better like Starlink. Ignoring the top 1%, and even the top 20% who build (owner-financed) custom homes. I'm still wondering, for the 70% of new tract home construction, are ISPs not interested in greenfield construction anymore? Greenfield construction used to be much cheaper than brownfield development projects later. I assume some ISP business finance reason I don't understand. 5G fixed wireless is that good now? Or that cheap now?