On 3/22/2012 3:49 PM, Greg Shepherd wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:11 PM,<Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:40:27 -0700, Owen DeLong said:
Yes, I find it quite "amusing" that I am paying additional fees on all of my telecommunications services to subsidize high speed PON networks in rural bumf*ck while I can't get anything like it in San Jose, California.
That's OK, you're all in the same boat - the subsidized users can't get it either. :)
So where are these "subsidies" going? I live in rural BFE where most of my neighbors are still dialing in, and the local providers have no $$ incentive to build out here.
Greg
I imagine a lot goes into the general maintenance of rural systems. I recall 12 - 15 years ago, on the local news when it was announced a small town got its first phone line. Cost to GTE at the time was said to be 40K to do it, as the town was 20+ miles from the nearest anything. I've lived in an area where Verizon had to maintain 10 miles of overhead just for 1 SLC that serves 20 homes. Not that the service was any good but, I'm sure the cost was far higher than what the customers were paying. --John