Posted on 09/21/2016 7:28:39 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009
Read up on Fiber last week. They are also testing a wireless service and bought out an existing company.
I'm with you, with this micro quote from the article.
The ISP’s will restrict the data you use so if you go over their artificial cap they can ding you for more money.
How does that solve the problem of not having any poles to get an elevated position for wireless gigabit ?
The article is not about providing fiber into the homes, it is about putting wifi hotspots on top of existing power or telephone poles with no wired connection into the homes. That is where the savings in infrastructure rollout come from, by not having to dig up streets to run fiber into homes.
A mesh network of hotspots on poles a few hundred feet apart through a neighborhood could provide a gigabit wifi coverage at a relatively low cost compared to fiber installation. But what about the suburban and rural neighborhoods with no poles for anything ?
Rural areas and older subdivisions will have poles. In the newer subdivisions where everything is below ground they will have the Gigapower fiber. And for the Gigapower overbuild, it’s not like replacing a water main where the entire street gets ripped up. They do directional bores, and there is maybe a 6 ft x 6ft excavation every few hundred feet as they run innerduct (orange tubes on a large spool) and set handholds. After two to three weeks one can hardly tell any work was done.
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