Cable Outage Exposes Flaw

[kalakoa]

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Are there actually "requirements" in Hawai'i that companies enlarge their infrastructure to serve rural areas?

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Telcom is required to bring you analog dialtone; regulations simply didn't keep up with technology.

Retrofitting DSL into the existing Telcom infrastructure is probably relatively cheap, but why bother, everything is going wireless because that's where the regulations aren't.

[pahoated]

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Originally posted by macuu222

The population density of HPP is 760 people per square mile and is the highest population density on the island according to the 2010 census. Yet cable is still only available to about half the subdivision.

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But that is only 3,900 households. Cable goes to houses, not individuals. Also, that density is pretty narrow minded. Of course, the nutty developments have high population density. The decision to upgrade would come from the *average* population density for the whole district. And the problem for HPP is those 3,900 households are distributed across something like 8,800 lots total. Cable companies won't route coax further than 400 feet per single install.

Yes, as far as wire goes, what is in Puna is basically how it will stay. There is going to be more 4G though. Cell towers are a lot less investment cost than running fiber and building switch stations. Now about those contracts and byte caps.

"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"

[Bullwinkle]

seems to me the regulators missed the ball - not only did the ( do the) subdivisions need to deal with car traffic and paving the roads.... requiring cable and phone pre wire when the electricity goes in after the roads are in place - grin ....

cable / helco or an independant company would be more than happy to run the trunk cables from subdivision to central station...

high density is easy .... low density needs some fore thought - grin

if I were king I'd undergound all the utilities as well - one trench

[geochem]

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Originally posted by Bullwinkle


if I were king I'd undergound all the utilities as well - one trench

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And what would that add to the cost of the individual lots? and whose money are we talking about???

[Bullwinkle]

pointing out that if one wants infrastructure - it needs to be paid for. Undergrounding over time saves money and increases safety and values

each his own.... I am on t/w cable problem solved