= Сообщение: 6573 из 12550 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Gerrit Kuehn 2:240/12 09 Jun 18 12:44:40 Кому : Björn Felten 09 Jun 18 12:44:40 Тема : Fiber connection to every household FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/12+5a80ab12 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5b1b9986 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: LATIN1 ================================= ============================================================================== Hello Björn!
09 Jun 18 11:10, Björn Felten wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
GK>> Who pays for the network hardware, who owns and maintains it?
BF> Partially the tax payers of course. The entire country benefits BF> from having every citizen connected to the internet. It's a BF> democratic issue.
That's what we used to have here (100% publically owned Telekom). Back in the late 1980ies, early 1990ies when they decided to do ISDN, the decided that *everyone* could get it for the same price, and that's what they did. However, now telecommunications is run by private companies (even if the federation still holds some % in DTAG), and they're going for profit only. So they won't put any new cables or fibres in, except for very proftable regions (large cities with many customers etc.).
OTOH, I really wonder why people keep complaining all the time. Decades ago, when there was no market and only one public provider owned be the federation, they complained about high fees and low service. That's pretty much the same today, after the privatization they were all calling for 20 years ago. Same with snailmail, electricity networks and other infrastructure, btw.
BF> But also the individual household benefits from it. A property BF> with fiber connection is worth more than EUR20k than one that is not. BF> Compared to EUR10K for a property connected to the communal water and BF> sewage network.
That's why meanwhile citizen-founded companies startrunning fibres into the houses here.
