= Сообщение: 6643 из 12550 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Gerrit Kuehn 2:240/12 11 Jun 18 22:33:28 Кому : Michiel van der Vlist 11 Jun 18 22:33:28 Тема : Fiber connection to every household FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/12+5a80ab33 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+5b1ec946 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: LATIN1 ================================= Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+5b1f0420 ============================================================================== Hello Michiel!
11 Jun 18 20:57, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
GK>> They don't sell you more here.
MvdV> They would if there were competition...
There is only one fibre and only one copper cable. Which competition?
GK>> Nope, too expensive to do with not much revenue in sight.
MvdV> That's one of the probelems here too. People want fiber, but few MvdV> want to pay for it.
See?
MdvV> There have been several projects were fiber was MvdV> brought into people's home for free. Expecting that when it was MvdV> there, people would subscribe to the service. One of my sisters in MvdV> law has the fibre brought into the house. The ONT is there in the MvdV> meter cabinet. It has been there for three years now and she is MvdV> still on DSL because that is enough for her and it is cheaper...
Gas pipes and cable TV were often installed in a similar manner here. However, they always wait with such a project until the have a minimum of household they know will subscribe to avoid bad investments.
MvdV> So now the fiber boys have mostly stopped digging trenches and MvdV> installing ONTs for free in hope that people will subscribe. Now MvdV> they will only start digging if they get a minimum of X % of the MvdV> potential customers to sign a contract for Y years.
That's what I meant above. OTOH, digging is the expensive part (and the companies doing this are helplessly overbooked). Meanwhile, there is micro- and even nano-trenching for fibres in the streets that is supposed to lower the costs significantly, and there are fibre feed-throughs for fresh water pipes, gas pipes and sewer pipes (so you don't have to drill through the gardens and walls of the houses, anymore). Maybe these technologies will help giving the thing more momentum.
