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| tax, or subsidy? Without a specific defined policy goal any USF tax on broadband would be wasteful.. It seems the government should be doing more with the taxes on telecom (they already collect... inclusive of grafting $6+ for POT$ FCC line charge) and directing it back into the communities where it comes from.. not for taxes levied in NY to be subsidizing $12k routers in West Virginia they don't need or want... and other fraud, waste & abuse! You're telling me $12k couldn't have brought a fiber line to that library?!? PFFT! |
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| said by tmc8080:You're telling me $12k couldn't have brought a fiber line to that library?!? PFFT!
In the year the abuse occurred, in West Virginia? No, it couldn't have. Outside of Verizon's FiOS project, fiber costs are well over $12,000 a mile to just string on a pole. That doesn't even include the costs of the CPE at one end and the fiber plant at the other. |
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| said by AnonFTW :said by tmc8080:You're telling me $12k couldn't have brought a fiber line to that library?!? PFFT!
In the year the abuse occurred, in West Virginia? No, it couldn't have. Outside of Verizon's FiOS project, fiber costs are well over $12,000 a mile to just string on a pole. That doesn't even include the costs of the CPE at one end and the fiber plant at the other. MOST central offices in the eastern USA have fiber supplying copper networks becasue of the run-up in saving money on trasport costs-- that's why the northeast is LOADED with bundles of fiber.. it would be insane for a telecom central office not to have a fiber line (single bundle) to supply MORE than the needs of 64kbit voice calls..
Maybe you're factoring in Verizon's union labor costs at about $60/hour plus benefits... of course it would be more than $12k.
Try $10 an hour like subcontractors pay newbies to climb cell phone towers.. with NO benefits. At this cost, it would be worth it for even cablecoms to install fiber, that is if they weren't so damn protective of Video subscription service.
BTW, yes you have to assume there is already a central office/head-end with fiber in-town to hookup to.. |
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