Ask Phone Man, FTC has been rumored about offering FTH (fiber-tothe-home) here in Sumter for years. Not sure when they're actually gonna pull thru.
Ask Phone Man, FTC has been rumored about offering FTH (fiber-tothe-home) here in Sumter for years. Not sure when they're actually gonna pull thru.
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there was one in the initial grant application, but its not official...... pricing wont be publicly available until we get some fiber in the ground... duncan chapel will most likely be the first area built and you will probably start seeing construction starting this fall.......
lead time on fiber is whats slowing things down now...... with all the stimulus construction going on now, the fiber manufacturers are catching hell keeping up...
i can say this, the prices i seen in the grant application will be VERY affordable. it WILL be cheaper than ANY option you have now, which is really only satelite, or wireless thorough your cell towers... but you will be impressed.
They'll never get this past the good ol boys network here. Too many politics in place. We currently pay for higher priced services even though cheaper services exist. It's taken years for Clemson to get the light rail project off the ground. Telcom in SC is heavily regulated... Especially for colleges.
Bub 150 a year?
i have been installing ftth for about 5yrs, in horry county, not just the beach, any new development gets fiber instead of copper
10m/10m $44.95
Arghhh... I hate the word MPLS. When it comes to any phrase that deals with MPLS, Metro-E, crossing a lata.... LOL.
Northland Cable stops ¼ mile from my house. I called them and ask them why they stopped and when it was coming on down the road. They said they had no plans to run it here. They said it costs them $10,000 a mile to run the cable.
So I went with DSL from Sprint/Embarq/CenturyLink. My bill was $83 a month for 3 megs and a landline. When I decided I didn't need the landline, never used it cause we use cells, I called them up and told them I wanted Naked DSL. I had them drop my landline and boost my d-load to 10 megs. My bill is now $43 a month.
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I have some insight into this...
First off...1Gig for $70 is a marketing ploy, is a technology trial, and is not sustainable in today's market. The reason is that bandwidth cost for the ISP is way too high. I'd bet the bank that the 1 Gig home owners are all sharing at most 2-3 Gigs. Best prices I have seen for 1Mbps for an ISP is $6/month. 1000 of those is $6000 spread across 200 folks? Math doesn't work, so they are really spreading it out.
However, 1 Gig to the home is a reality in the future and is already being deployed throughout the southeast over fiber. We've been doing it 4 years now. But that 1 gig you pay for is just a guarantee that you get 1 Gig point to point through the network. Once you leave the network you are in, you no longer have that guarantee of speed. You're only as fast as the networks you hit and the speed the server you're trying to hit subscribes to.
Cost to the provider is also not cut and dry. There is a fund established called the Universal Service fund that supplements the higher cost providers. This is part of where the funding originates from. If you don't spend it you don't get it. Depending on the # of subscribers it can be $1500-$3500 per sub. In some case all of that can be recovered. That is the benefit to the rural companies that have high costs. The big boys pay in the small ones take it out. This is what was created when AT&T was broken up.
1 Gig to the home will be in Orangeburg county shortly, that I can guarantee. It will not be free... ...and SCDuckers have to pay extra. We take checks, money orders, and especially cash if you would like it sooner than later....
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