Norwegian ISP: dig your own fiber trench, save $400
Found on Ars Technica on Sunday, 10 May 2009
Lyse has become the largest fiber-to-the-home provider in Norway thanks to an innovative business model that asks customers to preregister before any fiber is dug, then offers them a $400 savings if they dig their own trench from the street to the home.
Lyse's Altibox service offers 10Mbps, 30Mbps, or 50Mbps connections-all of them fully symmetrical (upload and download speeds are identical).
As for the future, Lyse can ramp up the speed dramatically once all that precious fiber is in the ground; its partners are already testing both 100Mbps and 1,000Mbps connections.
Even for "just" a symmetrical 10Mbps line, I'd dig a trench. That would make it way more interesting to run a little server from your own home; the standard DSL lines just aren't suited for that.