Do they claim to pass 97% with two-way cable?
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
The cable industry claims 91% of households passed with two-way cable.
Let's change this just a bit. How about FFTH/DSL OR Cable. The point was that it is usually two options. Oligopoly is nearly as bad as Monopoly you know <grin>.
> >
> >> We are talking about an infrastructure that does not lend itself
> >> very well to market forces. In many places FFTH and/or
DSL from a
> >> single carrier are becoming the only options. I would
not count a
> >> 500ms satellite hop as an option <grin>.
> >
> >The cable industry claims 97% of the households passed in the US.
> >Why don't you consider it an option?
> >
> Do they claim to pass 97% with two-way cable?The cable industry claims 91% of households passed with two-way cable.
Maybe in North America, yes. Are you sure?..
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And zero in my area. And you can't start a telco COOP in this
state since the iLEC has encouraged laws to make that not legal. The
two major iLECs in this state (Verizon, SBC) are not doing their FIOS
nor their "Project Lightspeed" in the state last i knew. So much for
fancy technology. The only [major] providers that are doing high speed
to the home are Comcast and Charter.
Neither the local cable franchise nor the local iLEC care to
service my area. There is a local WISP that just started up that covers
the space where my home is.. it appears they have a single T1 so you
have to hope that nobody else wants to watch some other TV episode
at the same time.. (since everyone is jumping on the pay-per-view
or downloadable tv bandwagon in the past few weeks/months).
- jared
Which state?
Michigan.