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Google breaks heart, White Knight falls off horse

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Page is right

Google first generation access network is just a telco GPON as-is. That is expensive as it carries lots and lots of legacy. For example, an optical access network should not need a the whole BNG + supporting infra. That is an idiocy from the days of wholesale dialup grafted onto a network that does not need it. Google should have reduced that cost already instead of verbatim copying telco architectures and using off-the-shelf kit.

While you cannot reduce 90% this way, you can and should reduce equipment costs quite a bit which in turn should make the network competitive against the incumbents.

You can also reduce rollout costs vs standard telco costs by approximately x3 through improved organization (I have done that modeling in a past life in a telco by the way). However, if you try that in a telco the unions will fit you some nice and comfy concrete shoes. As Google is not yet unionized, it can actually try this one.

When you combine the technical cost reduction with rollout organization cost reduction you actually can get > 70% overall cost reduction. In order to achieve 90% you will need to do industrial scale rollouts in suburbia style areas (not touching the countryside and not touching metropolitan areas). It is probably doable (again - been there, done that math, ended up with a conviction into the telco research organization for showing that the current costs can be reduced).

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