On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote:
In most areas of the country you can't get a permit to build a house without electrical service (something solar and other off the grid people are fighting). Since it is so much more cost effective to install with new construction, why don't we have codes requring Cat5 drops in every room, and fiber to the home for all new construction?
And where does that fiber go to? Home runs from a central point in the development, so any provider can hook up to any house at the street? Deregulation means those lines should be accessible to any company for a fee. How do you give House A Verizon and House B Cox, especially if Cox doesn't support fiber? Granted, I don't do residential broadband deployments, maybe all of those issues are trivial, but something that needs to be considered. Just because there is only one player in a certain market now doesn't mean we shouldn't plan now for 10 players 10 years from now in the same market. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------