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?