1st. The fiber has just been installed. Speed about 15MPS, which is about
12 T1's. That's a lot of bandwidth, we're talking a big, big pipe.

Whoo hoo! Two and a half cable modems!

2nd. It will not be free, neither will it be anywhere near as costly as I
was told it was as OSH last year. (I was told $400 per person) .
Rates are $7.95 per day or $39.95 from 4/4/06 to 4/10/06

Nothing like a captive audience, eh?

or $59.95 from 3/20/06 to 4/15/06.

Now that's a bit more like it. Too bad you have to use it all 26 days to
get the price/day down.

3rd. No company is going to provide this service at a loss.. Please take
your laptop and purchase the service even if it's just for a day or two.
(You know you have to check that e-mail!) You could imagine it takes quite
an investment for any company to provide a service like this.

Actually, I'm having trouble imagining this being much of an investment at
all. $500-1000 or so, tops, and that's at retail rates. Presumably a
telecom company needs to invest less. Yes, you'll need at least a few
customers to make it worth it. But bandwidth is cheap, and the proposed
rates are high. It won't take many people to break even.

I guess the biggest surprise to me is that with fiber, you're only getting
15Mbps.

I apologize for my cynical view, but frankly your post reads like everyone
ought to be wowed by the service that's going to be provided, and while I
think it's nice there will be access for those who want it, I can't say that
I'm even close to being wowed.

Pete