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Re: Broadband ISPs taxed for "generating light energy"

  • From: Alexander Harrowell
  • Date: Tue Oct 10 12:05:25 2006
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Reasonable? I think you mean "justifiable".

On 10/10/06, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:

    > Sounds reasonable to me. Since the sale of energy is
    > usually measured in kilowatt-hours, how many kwh of
    > energy is transmitted across the average optical fibre
    > before it reaches the powereda mplifier in the destination
    > switch/router?

Also, remember, it's _net_ energy delivered which matters...  I'm sure the
customer is delivering light back toward the ISP as well.

                                -Bill