by
dane » Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:47 pm
jrostkow wrote:To help gauge interest in fiber sonic.net should do the following:
1. Create webform where people submit their name, address, and email if they would be willing to commit to $40 for 100 Mb or $70 for 1 Gb fiber/phone service if offered in their neighborhood. List would be limited to bay area zip codes.
We've got that form, it's here!
http://sonic.net/fusion/
By this, I mean that we count every Fusion service (where available) or legacy AT&T DSL (where Fusion is not available) as a "vote" for fiber. As you are likely curious how various regions stack up, here are the top 10 cities, by current market share rank:
- Sebastopol
- Forestville
- Santa Rosa
- Healdsburg
- Cotati
- Sonoma
- Cloverdale
- Petaluma
- Emeryville
- Berkeley
* You'll note that San Francisco is not in this list - though we have more Fusion customers there than anywhere else. San Francisco is actually nine distinct regions in our architecture, and we haven't yet done the demographic study of each region to determine where they rank in this list.
We will choose our second city once we wrap up Sebastopol, so there is likely to be substantial change in this list before a decision is made. We will also be adding additional scoring factors such as city size (Forestville is pretty darn small, Santa Rosa is a rather large project) and costs (Healdsburg is a municipal utility, not PG&E, so right-of-way costs may be higher.) These additional factors will be computed as part of the "score" of each location in order to determine what area is next up.
A key point is that our new "Fusion Fiber" is the same price as Fusion. This was done so that we can seamlessly migrate customers from Fusion copper to Fusion Fiber as fiber rolls out. This lets us build out with confidence, knowing how many customers we can migrate over "day one".
This is the grand idea behind the Fusion product. Ta-da!
-Dane