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To: WTC who wrote (842)5/14/1997 11:12:00 AM
From: Sam Citron   of 12823
 
Since there are such high start-up costs and a vast disparity in willingness to pay for fast internet and other new services, why are we not seeing the emergence of planned wired communities where a home builder like Del Webb contracts with a TWX or TCI to create a new development that has the most modern telecom infrastructure? This infrastructure can then be priced into each individual unit (seems modest to me compared to a golf course, for example). In addition, these features should attract businesses to the area. The idea is a sort of residential information zone, somewhat similar to the commercial info zones that have been set up in Bangalore and other parts of India to spur economic development.

Is this sort of thing already happening, for example, in Orlando? Are a large proportion of the communities wired with HFC new developments?
I just can't think of any easier way to shift the substantial cost and risk from the cable provider to the consumer who is willing to pay.

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