BKWade
join:2004-07-29
Lafayette, LA
| Re: How can it be any clearer? LUS has had a publicly owned fiber loop around Lafayette for better than 10 years now. I believe the support staff is going to be ok.
There is fiber running N/S on I-49 and E/W on I-10. Where do those Interstates meet? Lafayette. I don't really see a downside to the logistics of connecting it all to every business or home in the city/parish area if possible.
Price? WTH do you think Bellsouth or Cox would make us pay? And don't give me that BS about paying for services that not everyone gets to use. Look at your Bellsouth bill sometime and tell me how much of that money you think you as an individual actually cost that company in service.
There is also the ever-present talk about WiMax and WiFi and all those wonderful wireless alternatives we are not considering. Wireless has far more security, reliability, and scalability concerns than fiber does; not to mention the fact that supporters of that technology are having trouble getting it accepted in some of their key markets. Sure Intel is pushing some of it but if I had put as much money into a pet project as they have, I'd push it too!
Bottom line is, as usual, you don't like the idea? Don't buy the friggin service. Keep your Bellsouth DSL or Cox cable access. I'll take FTTH over those anytime. |
