Fwd: Groups launch gigabit-per-second broadband project

[Tom Johnson]

Though we have heard similar tales before, hope springs (eternal?)
-tj

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From: Steve Ross <edito...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 23, 2012 at 1:40 PM
Subject: Groups launch gigabit-per-second broadband project
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[Owen Densmore]

Sigh.

They mention a need for a new business model, their's being apparently to improve education via working with 30 universities.

Home users have been stuck with broadband being a secondary service.  

- Telephone land lines => DSL

- Cable TV => give a channel or two to internet & phone services

- Cellular => LTE hopefully, MyFi for now.

This is really odd when the model should be fast internet (100Mb or so) which would serve for TV, phone, and internet .. but that requires a new service rather than modifying an existing one.  There have been some interesting community based stunts like internet over power line.

Cybermesa, the local Santa Fe ISP, is exploring a WiFi deployment using modern antennas with neighborhoods sharing the wireless space to a landline, likely fiber.

I guess the question is the consumer at this point.  We are already paying HUGE monthlies for cellular and cable, less so for landline phone.  Why are they willing to pay these large bills but not willing to pay for higher bandwidth?  It does seem to me that there is a business waiting to happen.

I know its unfashionable to look to consolidation, fast internet replacing landline, cellular and TV.  But it seems to me that if it could be delivered, reducing the overall cost of these three, it would have a chance.  I'd certainly jump on a reasonable solution.

After all, Planetary Resources and SpaceX are willing to take a chance on asteroids and space, why not something as simple as internet?

   -- Owen

[Roger Critchlow]

All we are saying, is give the net a chance.

I think we should let the post office go into the internet business, they'll at least have something to do.

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[Chuck Baldwin]

TIme Warner cable has run fiber throughout Corning. Our service is entirely fiber based and digital. A little frustrating sometimes as the phone doesn't work if the cable modem is off. I have to be careful when resetting the modem as to not cut off a phone convo nor prevent one if she is expecting a call.

'Bothers me because class 1 landlines are right to life lines and must have the 99.99 percent up time guarantee. Mom is 88 and should the power fail (which happened last Fall during bad weather) she has no phone to use in any needed situation and she won't buy into a cell phone nor other device that could provide the appropriate timely needed assistance when needed. Even if she did she couldn't learn to use it. She's really technophobic, but conversely loves her email and functions better than most her age at it. I suspect it is because it helps her social life, so she "finds" the ability to "work" it.

I agree with the PO as internet service, and wonder why that didn't happen anyway.

-C

[Fabio Carrera]

You make some great points here Owen

                                                                            

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