Free High Speed Internet to the Home or School
A novel new approach to underwriting the costs of next generation high speed Internet - fiber to the home while addressing the challenges of reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions and providing new revenue model for service providers.
Executive Summary
One of the significant challenges facing network operators today is the high capital cost of deploying next generation broadband network to individual homes or schools. Fiber to the home only makes economic sense for a relatively small percentage of homes or schools. One solution is a novel new approach under development in several jurisdictions around the world is to bundle the cost of next generation broadband Internet with the deployment of solar panels on the owners roof or through the sale of renewable energy to the homeowner. Rather than charging customers directly for the costs of deployment of the high speed broadband network theses costs instead are amortized over several years as a small discount on the customer’s Feed in Tariff (FIT) or renewable energy bill. There are many companies such as Solar City that will fund the entire capital cost of deploying solar panels on the roofs of homes or schools, who in turn make their money from the long term sale of the power from the panels to the electrical grid. In addition there are no Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) and Green Bond Funds that will underwrite the cost of larger installations.
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Bundling of renewable energy with broadband starting to take off
The New York Times: Making the case for cheaper broadband in schools
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Care for Home Solar Panels with Your Honda? Next stage to fund Google Fiber?
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Googles next steps after Kansas City
[The hubbub and buzz around Google’s Kansas City fiver to the home (FTTH) project has died down as Google over the next year focuses on building out its network.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Google's secret strategy with the Kansas City Fiber project
Friday, February 24, 2012
A novel way to fund broadband FTTH Internet - converting old coax/copper into microgrids
[I have long argued that we need to find new business models to underwrite costs of next generation broadband – Fiber to the Home ( FTTH) if we ever hope to breakup the existing broadband oligopoly.