Nearly all of the industries you mentioned below receive some type of local or federal/government funding. If I was going to build some kind of access network, I would be banging on the .gov door asking for grants and low interest loans to help roll out broadband to remote areas. My former employer was given a TON of money (upwards of 80MM) to run Fiber across a body of water and into a microwave ring for distribution to some of the most remote customers in the world.
I think that if this type of project gained any amount of traction, you would be given a check from a giant and told to enjoy your life on the beach. Just my .02 though. On 2/11/13 4:16 PM, "Masataka Ohta" <mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: >Scott Helms wrote: > >> IMO if you can't pay >> for the initial build quickly and run it efficiently then your chances >>of >> long term success are very low. > >That is not a business model for infrastructure such as gas, >electricity, CATV, water and fiber network, all of which >need long term planning and investments. > >Anyway, as SS is less expensive than PON, there is no reason to >insist on PON. > > Masataka Ohta > >