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MODERN DAY Telecommunications needs a holistic approach and that requires holistic thinking.
The question of the issue at hand is:
Can We Afford NOT to Deploy Fiber to the Home ?
I believe in my heart of telecom being that we cannot afford at least in the US to continue in our past, bad behaviors.
1. Environmental - what we leave behind and the inability to grasp the concept that oil, black gold, Texas Tea, the stuff that makes things go, is it's not unlimited. Neither are the species that we continue to kill.
2. Wasted Time - several weeks ago the television networks carried the study about HOURS of wasted time that commuters spend in traffic waiting. It doesn't require a traffic engineer to put a value on this.
3. Empowerment - Telecommunications infrastructure has the ability to empower US Citizens. The infrastructure includes the last mile.
4. COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) and NPV (Net Present Value) - you can do all the cost containment analyses, NPV models, and number crunching and reality is dismal cruelty. There's a much bigger picture to deploying a National Telecommunications infrastructure that will serve not just the chosen few.
5. Cost of Building -
a) the cost of office space remains a key detriment to current day business.
b) the cost of building and maintaining MORE roads is a national issue and
c)the impact of empowerment - what does this mean for folks with bandwidth and access...is it an opportunity to do more for less and consume less oil, waste less time, Secure more US jobs on our own soil and CHANGE our society from Henry Ford's vision of every American owning a car for independence ?
Our current day model which is "society built upon the automobile" and this vision needs to change. No, I don't think the FREE MARKET Case is valid. There's too much at stake. Corning makes good glass and I'm sure with the 2 million or so displaced telecom souls here in the US... would love to have a challenge of reducing the construction costs of deploying FTTH. Cost of Maintenance is another benefit to consider.
So, that's my Tele-'VISION.' Where's James Martin when you really need him?
What do you think ?
(The above is a summary opinion)
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The question of the issue at hand is:
Can We Afford NOT to Deploy Fiber to the Home ?
I believe in my heart of telecom being that we cannot afford at least in the US to continue in our past, bad behaviors.
1. Environmental - what we leave behind and the inability to grasp the concept that oil, black gold, Texas Tea, the stuff that makes things go, is it's not unlimited. Neither are the species that we continue to kill.
2. Wasted Time - several weeks ago the television networks carried the study about HOURS of wasted time that commuters spend in traffic waiting. It doesn't require a traffic engineer to put a value on this.
3. Empowerment - Telecommunications infrastructure has the ability to empower US Citizens. The infrastructure includes the last mile.
4. COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) and NPV (Net Present Value) - you can do all the cost containment analyses, NPV models, and number crunching and reality is dismal cruelty. There's a much bigger picture to deploying a National Telecommunications infrastructure that will serve not just the chosen few.
5. Cost of Building -
a) the cost of office space remains a key detriment to current day business.
b) the cost of building and maintaining MORE roads is a national issue and
c)the impact of empowerment - what does this mean for folks with bandwidth and access...is it an opportunity to do more for less and consume less oil, waste less time, Secure more US jobs on our own soil and CHANGE our society from Henry Ford's vision of every American owning a car for independence ?
Our current day model which is "society built upon the automobile" and this vision needs to change. No, I don't think the FREE MARKET Case is valid. There's too much at stake. Corning makes good glass and I'm sure with the 2 million or so displaced telecom souls here in the US... would love to have a challenge of reducing the construction costs of deploying FTTH. Cost of Maintenance is another benefit to consider.
So, that's my Tele-'VISION.' Where's James Martin when you really need him?
What do you think ?
(The above is a summary opinion)
