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From: peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Maybe it Really is Time for Telecommunications Competition
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Date: 12 Feb 91 01:31:17 GMT
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In article <74411@bu.edu.bu.edu>, dave@westmark.westmark.com (Dave
Levenson) writes:

> In article <74348@bu.edu.bu.edu>, abvax!iccgcc.DNET!herrickd@
> uunet.uu.net (Dan Herrick) writes:

> > Every community of any size in the United States now has a second
> > company with a switch for providing public phone service - the
> > non-wireline cellular phone provider....

> The wiring to the cell sites is a drop in the bucket compared to the
> wiring to every wired telephone in the community.

But the local cable company has wires going into a large proportion of
the homes. Why not run broadband to the local cable box and then have
something like the "transceiver" box I suggested for rural areas
carrying dial-tone from there to the house? What's the capacity of
broadband over coax for that sort of distance?

There's no reason to wire pairs from every house to the CO...


(peter@taronga.uucp.ferranti.com)