Though I should note that GCI was my former employer and a well respected MSO and fiber infrastructure owner/operator. They are the smartest major player I've come across, and an all around good bunch of people.
From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
-------- Original message -------- From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> Date: 02/11/2013 4:44 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>,nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2? Check out GCI's Terranet project.
From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.
-------- Original message -------- From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> Date: 02/11/2013 4:37 PM (GMT-08:00) To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2? On 11-Feb-13 18:23, Warren Bailey wrote:
On 2/11/13 4:16 PM, "Masataka Ohta" <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
Scott Helms wrote:
IMO if you can't pay for the initial build quickly and run it efficiently then your chances of long term success are very low. That is not a business model for infrastructure such as gas, electricity, CATV, water and fiber network, all of which need long term planning and investments. Nearly all of the industries you mentioned below receive some type of local or federal/government funding. If I was going to build some kind of access network, I would be banging on the .gov door asking for grants and low interest loans to help roll out broadband to remote areas. I followed the link in a recent email here to the details on the Maine Fiber Co, and their web site indicates they got started with $7M in private funding--and a $25M grant from the feds for improving service to rural areas. That radically changes the economics, just as I'm sure it did for other utilities.
S -- Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking