Test Selling "Last Mile" Fiber to Homeowners Under Way in Canada

Ars Technica is covering an interesting pilot program taking place in Ottawa, CA. 400 homes are being outfitted with fiber optic cables; however, the "last mile" of fiber is going to be sold outright to the homeowners rather than providing internet at a monthly fee. "In the future, it could become commonplace for homes to come with 'tails.' These customer-owned, fiber-optic connections would link them to a network peering point. Without the expense of rolling out last mile infrastructure to every home, many more ISPs could afford to serve a given neighborhood by running wiring to the peering point, leading to more competition and lower prices. Perhaps best of all, the growth of customer-owned fiber could make debates over 'open access' and network neutrality moot, as robust telecom competition should prevent the worst of the monopolistic behavior exhibited by telco and cable incumbents."

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Re:This would solve so many problems for us.

[AnotherSeattlePrgmr]

What other costs would there be? That would be pretty cheap. I guess you'd have to get an ip subnet. For my comcast account that costs $60 a month, with theoretically 40 gigabytes, that's 0.15 cents per kB. Vs. your amount above of 0.02 cents per or about 7 times cheaper. If I could pay 2k today to get a fiber internet connection to my house that wasn't limited by comcast, I'd do it in a second.

Welcome to slashdot

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The first thing you need to know is that all of the major interests have blog centers where they monitor /. all day. Posts like yours that involve actual people involved with the issues at hand get modded down as a matter of course. That means you lose Karma, and your subsequent posts matter less as a matter of course.

Don't give up. It's a useful forum.

That said, give it up. Unless you live within a reasonable distance from a peering point you're not going to get a fair price for good bandwidth in Seattle. If you are lucky enough to be within line-of-sight I might be able to help you hook up a wireless connect. It'll cost you too, but it'll be worth it in the long run.