[169955] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Mar 21 15:13:56 2014
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <201403211501.s2LF171x005077@aurora.sol.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 15:13:19 -0400
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 21, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
> Why wouldn't you instead charge for the build out as a NRC and then =
charge=20
> for maintenance as a MRC?
I for one would be willing to bear a high NRC start-up cost for someone =
building fiber to my home. Not everyone would make that tradeoff. I =
know people who trade between the two local DSL/DOCSIS incumbents every =
year because it's $5 cheaper/mo to get the next 12-month deal as a =
switcher. While their time may not be worth ($5*12)/hour to account for =
this minimal switching cost, it's certainly a real economic cost if =
you're waiting for a 4 hour window for a tech to show-up and do an =
install.
aside:
I recently got natural gas at my home, the install cost was something =
like $2k, the utility had an option, pay an extra $27/mo for however =
many months, or pay the $2k up-front. Some folks can't absorb a cost =
like that, others can. I've heard from FTTH providers their install =
cost is in that same ballpark. Really wish they would have been able to =
pull fiber at the same time as the HDPE. The fact that it was a =
contractor as well certainly means they could run a side-business =
building their own fiber using the other utility as the main seed-money =
and have a wholesale fiber network for "cheap".
- Jared=
