11-16-2012, 06:39 AM
1. It takes about two years to build out a cellphone tower; the concrete pour is usually somewhere around the halfway point.
2. The US "broadband" market doesn't do "competition"; the players have all agreed on what price you're going to pay, your "freedom of choice" amounts to "what letterhead the bill has".
3. Point #2 hardly matters when the incumbents won't even bother to deploy service in most places.
Best solution will be community-driven; I keep hoping some subdivision will use their CC&R-granted rights-of-way to deploy fiber, but a wireless mesh network is more likely.
2. The US "broadband" market doesn't do "competition"; the players have all agreed on what price you're going to pay, your "freedom of choice" amounts to "what letterhead the bill has".
3. Point #2 hardly matters when the incumbents won't even bother to deploy service in most places.
Best solution will be community-driven; I keep hoping some subdivision will use their CC&R-granted rights-of-way to deploy fiber, but a wireless mesh network is more likely.