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.

For further information and detailed business analysis please contact Bill St. Arnaud at bill.st.arnaud@gmail.com.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Google Public Policy Blog: What if you could own your Internet connection?

Google Public Policy Blog: What if you could own your Internet connection?
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Monday, July 21, 2008

Customer Owned Fiber Resources

Customer Owned Networks reduce health care IT costs

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000048.html

Another article on customer owned networks and reducing health care costs

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000061.html

Customer Owned Networks for Government

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000070.html

Customer Owned Networks for Hospitals inConnecticut

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000085.html

Buffalo hospitals get connected with customer owned fiber

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000088.html

Museum of Natural History gets connected with customer owned fiber

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000094.html

More companies offering customer owned fiber

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2004/0077.html

Palo Alto Ftth

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2007/000401.html

Burlington Ftth case study

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2007/000504.html

Barcelona @22 project

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000238.html

Customer Owned (Empowered) Fiber Workshop

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000266.html

Customer Owned Fiber Workshop for Universities

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2004/0061.html

Customer Owned Networks for schools, universities business

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2004/0054.html

Larry Lessig article on customer owned networks

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2003/0139.html

Sarbanes-Oxley driving demand for customer owned networks

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000270.html

More enterprises tap customer owned fiber

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000311.html

More companies specializing in sale of customer owned fiber

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000317.html

Pembina Schools Customer Owned fiber

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000336.html

Innovative fiber networks in New Zealand

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000351.html

FiberCo – customer owned networks for universities

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000352.html

Breaking the enterprise bottleneck with customer owned fiber

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000359.html

Case studies of how customer owned fiber helps business

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2006/000367.html

Customer owned fiber – businesses see the light

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000020.html

First workshop on customer owned networks

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000036.html

How customer owned networks is hurting telco revenue

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000042.html

New York Presbyterian Hospital deploys customer owned network

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000045.html

Carrier Neutral Exchange Points and Customer Owned fiber

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000079.html

Customer Owned fiber market to grow 15% in Europe

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000138.html

Customer owned fiber network for 6000 homes in Toronto

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000142.html

Quebec government to promote customer owned fiber networks

http://lists.canarie.ca/pipermail/news/2005/000145.html

Czech republic deploys 3000km customer owned fiber

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2004/0119.html

Customer Owned Networks in Australia

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2004/0111.html

US Gov’t labs acquire customer owned fiber

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2004/0100.html

More cities deploy optical fiber networks

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2003/0131.html

Tutorials on Customer Owned Networks at SuperComputing

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2003/0078.html

Universities in 1o states are acquiring customer owned fiber

http://emperor.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2003/0011.html

Sunesys Corporation
www.sunesys.com

Black & Veatch
www.bvtelecom.com

Internetworking Atlantic Inc
www.internetworking-atlantic.com

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