11 Feb
2013
11 Feb
'13
7:42 p.m.
Stephen Sprunk wrote:
The fiber plant would presumably be paid for with 30-year bonds, same as any other municipal infrastructure (eg. water and sewer lines--the real "pipes"), for which interest rates are currently running around the rate of inflation. There is no need to pay them off quickly.
In addition, as PON is even less efficient initially when subscriber density is low and there are few subscribers to share a field splitter (unless extremely lengthy drop cables are used, which costs a lot), PON is slower to pay them off. Masataka Ohta