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Originally Posted by Detector  Anyone have any idea how much this "free Internet" is going to cost someone? About 8 months ago I priced a OC12(622.08 Mbps) which is what our corporate WAN is and it was around $500,000 a month plus several $100,000 setup costs. The price has probably gone down some but that still a huge fee someones got to pay.
Guess who that someone would be? |
At a half-a-million per month an OC12 pipe is purdee ambitious for a city this size and very generous when considering the number of 'subscribers' it can support.... 2 million 'dial-up' or 90 to 130 thousand broadband subscribers.
I was thinking more along the lines of an OC3 pipe that can support ~23,000 broadband'ers. I don't have any accurate cost figures for an OC3. Do you?
Broadband figures are based on 256kbps to 512kbps nominal throughput.
Latency is an issue for 'real time' users and they would always have a right to utilize any available wired ISP..