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If we assume $20k to run the fiber, you could do starlink for a long time. There are internet options other than fiber. Unless there is no other options in Fran
by Always42 23d ago
If we assume $20k to run the fiber, you could do starlink for a long time. There are internet options other than fiber. Unless there is no other options in France than fiber.
What if France got a contract with starlink? Brought the cost down of that.
- rescbr 23d agoWhy do you assume $20k as the cost to run the fiber? The cost is the contractor's hours to get up a ladder on each electricity pole from the closest PON splitter to the customer's home, plus the fiber itself which is peanuts at volume. Everything else (permits, pole rent, etc) is accounting money that can be negotiated. If there's a strategic national program to fiber up the whole country, this could be exempted on a pen's stroke, or depreciated in many decades.
- well_ackshually 23d agoYeah, I'd absolutely _love_ that my tax money goes to funding a US company. What could go wrong with depending on a hostile country for someone as basic as Internet ? If I found out my government blew 20k to slobber on Musk's balls instead of using that money to create work for our own people, I'd personally go blow up that antenna.
- bastawhiz 23d agoWhy should Starlink get that business? Why shouldn't France run its own fiber that it controls that isn't dependent on a US-based corporation? And you said it yourself: Starlink already exists. They don't need a subsidy. You bring the cost of Starlink down by forcing them to compete on the merits of their own service, not by throwing money at them.
- edhelas 23d agoStarlink goes out of business and ... you don't have Internet anymore. The local fiber guy goes out of business... you still have the fiber line there. Its investment, not subscription.