[116968] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk - iName.com)
Thu Aug 27 21:36:23 2009
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From: "Frank Bulk - iName.com" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Sean Donelan'" <sean@donelan.com>,
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:35:57 -0500
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Estimates to bring FTTH to all of America is in the $100 to $300B range.
So yes, the $7.2B is a drop in the bucket.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:53 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Fred Baker wrote:
> If it's about stimulus money, I'm in favor of saying that broadband
implies
> fiber to the home. That would provide all sorts of stimuli to the economy
-
> infrastructure, equipment sales, jobs digging ditches, and so on. I could
> pretty quickly argue myself into suggesting special favors for deployment
of
> DNSSEC, multicast, and IPv6. As in, use the stimulus money to propel a
leap
> forward, not just waste it.
Broadband stimulus money = $7,200,000,000
Housing units in USA (2000) = 115,904,641
Stimulus money per housing unit = $62.12 one-time
What definition of "broadband" can you achieve for that amount of money?
Or for rural housing units (2000) = 25,938,698
Stimulus money per rural housing unit = $277.58 one-time
What definition of "broadband" can you achieve for that amount of money
in a rural build-out?
How much will fiber to the home cost in a rural area?
