I retired from personal blogging in July 2008.
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Cringely hits a bunch of my hot buttons in his latest musing.
It’s time to own our own last mile
The obvious answer is for regular folks like you and me to own our own last mile Internet connection. … The idea is simple: run Fiber To The Home (FTTH) and pay for it as a community of customers — a cooperative. The cost per fiber drop, according to Bill’s estimate, is $1,000-$1,500 if 40 percent of homes participate. Using the higher $1,500 figure, the cost to finance the system over 10 years at today’s prime rate would be $17.42 per month.
What we’d get for our $17.42 per month is a gigabit-capable circuit with no bits inside - just a really fast connection to some local point of presence where you could connect to ANY ISP wanting to operate in your city.
Sign me up.
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