So how much profit is there in running fiber out to the country side, areas where the population is less than 5000? I think this is a great solution for their customer base.
A common misconception is that this is a cheap way to get broadband out to rural areas. What you rarely see mentioned is that you can just plug one end of the power grid into the Internet "source" and have Internet access all the way. BPL requires "repeaters" every so often, and those are not inexpensive. So let's say that your town of 5000 is 20 or 30 miles from the next nearest town. I seem to recall that you need a repeater every 1 or 3 miles. Who pays for the repeaters? The people getting the service at the end? Well, if they do that, it's no longer cheap. (We're not talking about $40 Linksys routers). If the people at the end of the line don't pay, then the cost gets spread to everyone else.
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So how much profit is there in running fiber out to the country side, areas where the population is less than 5000? I think this is a great solution for their customer base.
A common misconception is that this is a cheap way to get broadband out to rural areas. What you rarely see mentioned is that you can just plug one end of the power grid into the Internet "source" and have Internet access all the way. BPL requires "repeaters" every so often, and those are not inexpensive. So let's say that your town of 5000 is 20 or 30 miles from the next nearest town. I seem to recall that you need a repeater every 1 or 3 miles. Who pays for the repeaters? The people getting the service at the end? Well, if they do that, it's no longer cheap. (We're not talking about $40 Linksys routers). If the people at the end of the line don't pay, then the cost gets spread to everyone else.