Are you considering a single low cost, high capacity pipe or numerous pipes?
The availability of low cost fiber transport at many locations in a network helps with that as the high cost, low capacity wireless backhauls become less of an issue. In the wireless world to do a 6 mile 100 megabit link, it costs $600; to do a 300 megabit link, it costs $15k; to do 3 gigabit, it costs $80k. Pretty much every 6 miles your costs double. If for a few hundred a month, you can inject a couple hundred megabit (that you purchased elsewhere) anywhere in your network, your end user cost goes down. Within a couple years I'll have low(ish) cost access to fiber transport at probably a dozen points in my network. Not only does this enable lower cost per bit for broadband use, but it also means I'll have a dozen points where I can launch 50 megabit to 1 gigabit service to a customer with no worry about how to get it there. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com On 12/23/2010 7:01 PM, MDK wrote: > You know, the thing about this, is that it would probably be GOOD, not bad. > > It would eventually result in people noticing that data consumption is a > little like your water bill... The more you use, the more it costs. > > These people believe that an ISP's connection to you is unlimited... All > you can consume, 24/7. And they base their premise that pricing to pay for > that kind of use, is what people are paying, and that's not true. What > people are paying for, is the average between the users. Eventually, I see > people ASKING to not pay the ever growing bill that will be required when > everyone ( not really, just a significant percentage, like 10 to 30% of > users) streams the evening news, 5 hours of nightly entertainment movies, tv > shows, live peer to peer entertainment and transfers, and other such > bandwidth hungry services. > > If I could buy at a carrier hotel, for $1/Mbit, and had no transport costs, > save my own network, my pricing structure STILL FAILS at about 4 - 8 times > the usage that my average customer now consumes and I'm faced with raising > rates. And, that customer is using between 8 and 12 times what he did just > 6 years ago. IE, it's not that long when the internet bandwidth price just > may not matter - no matter how cheap it becomes, and that the final mile and > next to final mile costs will be what drives the price and the way of > marketing services. > > I don't have a great deal on bandwidth, but it's not a BAD deal on > bandwidth, and honestly, the bandwidth cost, though a significant component > of the monthly outgo, and I expect it to fall "per meg" over time, is going > to be less and less relevant - and the cost of delivering that final and > next to final mile, along with customer service, is going to be the BIG > cost. > > What's this mean, in 5 years? I think it means that either certain means > of offering internet are either going to become a menu of services with a > price attached to each, or the overall cost to the consumer is going to > climb so far that people are going to demand "tiered" services so that they, > themselves, choose consumption levels they are willing to pay for. > > I could be all wrong, here, but, hey... It's almost a new year, so I'm > donning my "prophet" hat and shooting off my mouth. 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