Rim Semiconductor Company (fka RSMI)

[WHP03]

6000 homes... oooohhh... 5 Mbs... my fingers have been scorched... $2000/home for non-new home construction is a well used/known estimate for pulling fiber to the home, in exsisting neighborhoods.

We've been over this ground more often than you post misinformation posts Chrome.

Fiber is ideal, but the economics cannot beat using copper to achieve 52Mbs. If you don't believe me, dig into who's who on the VDSL stds committees and what's coming down on that front in 2002.

Ideally everyone, including the telcos would love to pull fiber to every's home... but given the fact that copper goes more or less to every home today, if they can do video on demand/HDTV over existing copper lines, how fast do you think they're going to can any program to pull fiber to existing homes? I believe they will continue to pull to new construction, and believe they should.