On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
Why wouldn't you instead charge for the build out as a NRC and then = charge=20 for maintenance as a MRC?
I for one would be willing to bear a high NRC start-up cost for someone = building fiber to my home. Not everyone would make that tradeoff.
I was discussing the cost that the service provider had to pay in the context of a "$4/mo copper pair" for rental of a copper pair that the ILEC almost certainly did not need to install. I do not see why the cost for build out needs to be included in the actual monthly cost an ILEC needs to charge. I think that utilities have a long history of proving that the cost for build out can be successfully charged to the property owner in several ways as you note. I don't see it as being an insurmountable problem to find some way for an intermediate service provider to deal with this if needed. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.