delusion FTL
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Re: Retail municipal FTTH has 1 big failing - ......
This is somewhat a mis-approximation of what's happening with ftth in utah. Iprovo was owned and operated by the city of provo and had trouble breaking even. Utopia is different, it's a conglomerate of several cities that control the lines, but retail services are left to whatever corporations want to use the lines to compete. Currently there are about 3-4 providers (AT&T used to be one).
Where utopia shines is in the connections/cost. Residential fiber connections are 15/15 for ~40 and 50/50 for ~60 dollars a month. They do have caps but 500GB is pretty generous and you don't get kicked off for going over, but will have to pay for additional bandwidth.
Business connections can go up to 1gbit symmetrical.
Ping times in games to close networks are sub 15ms.
A business that has say a dual T1 (3mbit) connection that costs them around ~700-1000 dollars a month would save significantly by getting a 30/30 business connection (10 times the bandwidth) for around 150 a month. They could even keep the ancient T's as a backup if they are worried about SLA's and just enjoy the 10x bandwidth for the extra 150. |
