While roaming the Internet, looking for things to make my Blogging more interesting to you the reader, I came upon Jeff Cohn's Coverage maps.
I am sure you have seen the Verizon Dead Zone commercials.
Looking at Jeff's maps you come to understand that living in an NFL city skews your perspective on coverage and makes the stimulus goal of unserved areas easier to grasp. Mind you the economics are hard. After all the Alvarion / Open Range announcement talked about 6M people in 17 states. Its hard to get critical mass in some areas.
When I worked for what is now Verizon in NY I was struck how much of New York State might as well be US West territory. When my pal Mark Hewitt showed me the plans to connect the fiber rings in NY I immediately recognized the holes that were being filled by their plan.
As will be discussed at 4GWE, If we are going to make the Internet available on broadband to everyone its going to take more than any one carrier can give us.
One last point about the maps. If you look at them you can see that unserved is a much greater problem then underserved. It will be possible for the competitive providers to claim they need stimulus, but my hope is that Chairman Genachowski will focus on the unserved. They are a greater need and more important to the greater good imho. I base this on the believe that economies of scale work in our favor where people are served, I would venture a guess that whoever is servicing the area might be open to enabling wholesale.
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