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To: Kent Rattey who wrote (24107)	5/3/2000 10:36:00 AM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

I would be willing to pay some fairly big bucks for optical fiber to my house (if there was the infrastructure to support it) but apparently I'm in the small minority. We have cable internet in my area but so far only a tiny percentage of the population is interested (about $50 a month vs $20 or so for standard phone service). I have no hard facts to back this up, but I suspect the cable company is losing money on it. If the public doesn't support spending an extra $30/mo. for cable , with the provider often having to basically give away the installation cost, it's likely going to be a long time before all fiber gets cheap enough to reach mass acceptance.