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Part of a series on advanced technology deployment. Overview of the New
Technology Deployment Model, provides the first publicly available
nationwide data (urban/rural; business/residential) on fiber optic
deployment.
For certain markets, fiber deployment made sense in the early 1990s from
the standpoint of costs and revenues. The results indicate that
revenues existed for half the U.S. households and businesses to have fiber
services by the early 2000s. For a discussion of some of the
regulatory barriers, see
Regulatory Wild Cards,
Pick a Card,
A Snapshot in Time, and
Revving Up the Communications Economic
Engine.)
In
this overview, simple charts show the cost of broadband deployment
compared to a nationwide benchmark for local telephone company revenues.
An additional chart provides capital investment needed for a 20-year
deployment.
This overview of the model also explains the basic design, including
definitions, assumptions, and caveats. This paper was written in
conjunction with the distribution of a computer model (software and user
guide), called the New Technology Deployment Model. |
