I understand that there are areas where you might have an 85% but that was before the days of half of all households have someone on public assistance. And if you notice, Google only cherry picked high income areas. If I targeted only Scottsdale with houses that average $1M and up and my competitor was crap, I'd get a high uptake also. Most of our areas are middle class, lower-middle class, and even below that. Budget matters, people are skeptical, and the effort needed to convert them is much higher.
As for the 5M number being realistic, depends on the investment and the market. If you are just targeting residential internet, it's going to be very, very expensive, like north of $250M to get there within 5 years unless you just buy everyone up. But there are a lot of people in this country and with average incomes at $30K, a lot of opportunity. I also believe it's possible to go much higher than that. DSL is collapsing and the cable companies are following the same stale path they always do without any real innovations. Rory -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Seth Mattinen Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 11:15 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Google Fiber information On 8/26/16 6:05 PM, CBB - Jay Fuller wrote: > > i thought it was a rooter? Only in Canada.
