From: Jack Bates (no email)
Date: Wed Dec 02 2009 - 09:24:21 EST
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> You might look into what's being done in Sweden then, here there are
> municipality networks who dig up the streets and does fiber to the
> individual house in "suburbia" (you have to trench your own land though,
> 4dm deep, 1-2dm wide, they only dig in the street put down the pipe in
> your trench).
Sounds good, though I don't see a majority of US consumers paying for
the trench, nor do I see a lot of home builders paying for it either
(around here they often skimp on putting in a real road, so the city
forces the road to be private which leaves it a wonderful unmaintained
gravel speed bump, much less wiring housing for data).
In addition, I don't see the municipalities paying for plant like they
do roads. Then again, I'm glad the city/county doesn't pay for our
plant. They can barely maintain their roads. Politics, education, and
how money flows in our economy are all probably show stoppers for
widespread success.
Jack
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