Saturday, April 24, 2010

Study Confirms: Wireless Cheaper than Fixed for Rural Broadband


Wireless infrastructure has significant cost advantages over wired access in reaching homes in rural areas, it is often the most efficient way to provide broadband access, says the Brattle Group. That will come as no surprise to anybody who ever has attempted to model the cost of building broadband access infrastructure

The Group's analysis suggests that the cost of bringing high-speed access to most rural counties is between $1,000 per household to $7,500 per household.

The bigger issue is the degree to which mobile broadband can be a viable subsitute for fixed broadband in urban areas where fixed access already is plentiful.

source document

No comments:

AI "Do Something, Now" Advice Will Mostly Lead to Irrelevant Outcomes

Whenever an important new technology arrives, it gets hyped, and the bigger the possible transformation, the greater the hype. And that is l...