16 Dec
2006
16 Dec
'06
7:37 a.m.
On Saturday 16 December 2006 10:59, jtd wrote:
The experiment at HBCSE proved conclusively that capital costs are very low. Caveat upstream has to be cheap and profits would be near zero.
Which experiment? Can you provide me the details? See, ISPs like Airtel who provide DSL services take to trenching which is a long drawn, slow and costly process. It definitely slows down their deployment and makes it costly :P But with smart ISPs like Reliance ( Jai ADAG! :P ) they just take to stringing up their fiber over their OWN street lights and "throw" them into the adjacent buildings to provide connectivity... Yup this is the way they're going to provide us with IPTV, Broadband and fixedline services. Well, atleast in the suburbs. Heh.
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Regards,
Dinesh A. Joshi