Not many markets in the US have as much new construction as Las Vegas. This should be a good thing for bandwidth. Customers should see fiber at the door step. If not fiber - because the ground is like concrete, how about broadband wireless ? How about a true ethernet service at a reasonable price ?
My experience involved getting a CLEC license and moving to the hills in the NW - hoping for DSL or Cable. As a CLEC we installed more than 100 T1's. The good news is the phone company - at the time Sprint was the name - now they go by embarq - and we could buy unbundled network elements, and get T1's for as little as 105 per month. But why not Ethernet ? Why not access to a data network. Why channelized TDM circuits.
Vegas is a large open valley and should be good for wireless. The problem is the telcos want to deploy tdm type cell services, and the small guy has not been able to get enough customers to succeed. Keyon provides a cheap service but its very unreliable. No way you would use it for a must have corporate office.
Now out in the suburbs no cable and no dsl. I’m serious. Neither the cable monopoly or the phone monopoly provides data service to everyone. We are inside the beltway, and surrounded by hundreds of homes that have no bandwidth. I have to use a T1 to even get anything reliable. $500 per month should buy a fast ethernet connection into the backbone.
The big boys are more interested in maintaining huge legacy systems and personal while charging customers in a metered measured service way. This is not the future of telco – unmeasured unlimited broadband access at rates similar to an office LAN will revolutionize the industry. How long do we have to wait ?