[169940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Fri Mar 21 11:15:55 2014
In-Reply-To: <9578293AE169674F9A048B2BC9A081B4B541F721@MUNPRDMBXA1.medline.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:15:29 -0400
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com>
To: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Naslund, Steve <SNaslund@medline.com> wro=
te:
> Nice idea, too bad no one can make any money on building infrastructure b=
ut not selling the services on top of it. Remember Global Crossing? You a=
re asking one company to put up all the capital expense and then try to rec=
over it by allowing access to their infrastructure to anyone at low rates. =
Not gonna work. Just on a piece of paper, figure out what it costs to get=
fiber to your neighborhood from the nearest central office and then how mu=
ch you have to charge to pay for that. If you can get a reasonable price t=
hat returns your investment within 20 years, I will be impressed.
IIRC, GLBX didn't receive taxpayer funded subsidies, nor municipal
bonds, in order to roll out their infrastructure.
I would gather that a fiber plant, on whole, costs less than the
number of subscribers, multiplied by average monthly bill, and again
by average length of service.... not to mention 20 years.
-Jim P.
