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NormanS
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
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Re: How will this help?
said by rradina  :I looked at the CO map here on DSL Reports and indeed, there aren't many COs in Arkansas equipped for DSL. There are, however, a lot of COs in the state and it seems logical if all were properly equipped, high speed network access could be made available to a lot of the state. Of course that assumes the COs have enough back haul bandwidth. That also assumes that DSLAM equipped COs can reach a lot of the rural customers. Alas, AT&T (which was formerly known as SBC) has recently changed the maximum loop length for which they will provision DSL; to 14,000 feet. Too many truck rolls to support marginal DSL lines.
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
 ·Charter Pipeline
| Granted. I wasn't claiming 100% penetration.
If we assume an average small town has a population density of 400 people/square mile, a town of less than 2500 people easily fits in under 6 square miles. This means a DSLAM equipped CO should be able to serve most of the folks in the town.
I'm using 2500 since the census data I reviewed listed Arkansas as 48% rural and 2500 seems to be an accepted urban threshold. This means 48% of Arkansas lives in towns 2500. Looking at the quantity of dots on the DSL Reports CO map, many of the small towns seem to have their own CO.
Nothing truly scientific. Just a few cursory observations that lead me to believe AT&T could do a lot to increase high speed access within the state. If the back haul between COs is already there, it doesn't seem like it would be terribly expensive to equip the existing COs with DSLAMs. Obviously if these COs barely have the capacity to carry their voice traffic, then AT&T will have to run fiber to all the COs. This would be quite expensive.
Still wondering what effect this will have on their economy since they are ready to spend public money on consumer broadband with the intent it will help them grow. | |
NormanS
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San Jose, CA
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| Having lived in a similarly populated region of California, I know that there is more to it than adding a DSLAM. Line conditioning is no small part of the process. AT&T just strung a new 25 pair bundle on our poles within the last two months; part of conditioning the neighborhood for U-Verse. A new VRAD went in, maybe six weeks ago. But the houses in this neighborhood are 42 years old, or more; who knows how old the copper was before this conditioning took place.
The CO where I used to live served, perhaps, 2500 people within the city limits of Wheatland, California; and probably 5,000 more in the surrounding region of southeastern Yuba county, and western Placer county. They could probably reach 2,000 (80% of 2,500) of those within the city limits of Wheatland, and 0 (0%) of those outside the city limits. Probably no more than 25% of the total population of the region. It wouldn't surprise me that they have DSL in Wheatland, now. But certainly not in Sheridan, California, where I used to live on ten acres of flat plains.
OTOH, I don't see how increasing broadband penetration will help the economy. I think somebody has sold the state legislators a "bill of goods".
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