US/ND-2: Correct Info!

Correct Info!

Steve Kohn (NOTES.SKOHN@A50VM1.trg.nynex.COM)
04 Sep 1996 22:33:22 GMT 

Hi Ronda,

I missed "typed" - I shouldn't rely on my memory when I'm quoting figures!

I have the McKinsey & Company - Connecting K-12 Schools to the Information
Superhighway - publication on my lap as I'm typing this - no more memory
stuff!  Numbers are in millions.  This document has been quoted often during
the US discussions.  Everyone knows it is not 100% accurate, but it is the
general feeling that it is pretty close.

Partial classroom model assumes that half of each school's classrooms are
connected with networked computers by the year 2000. The ratio is the same as
with the classroom model below: 5 students per computer with a T-1 connection.

Classroom model assumes all the classrooms are networked as above.

Element Partial Classroom  Classroom
  Initial   Ongoing  Initial Ongoing

Connection
to School 1,715  1,030  1,645  920

Connection
in school 5,025  410  6,285  570

Hardware 13,740 1,130  23,820 1,950
  ------ -----  ------ -----
SubTotal 20,480 2,470  31,750 3,440
  ------ -----  ------ -----
Content 3,505  1,715  6,605  2,920

Prof. Dev. 3,665  2,435  6,355  5,675

Sys. Oper. 1,220  810  2,110  1,890


I believe that you'd need at least the first three items: connection to
school; connection in school; and hardware in order to provide Internet
access.  Adding up the initial and ongoing you get a range of ~$23B to
~$35B.  And most of us would agree that prof. dev. is also need to make
this all work.

Sorry for the miss info earlier.  Hope this helps.

Steve

> Steve Kohn writes:
> 
> >between $20B and $~$47B depending what is included - just for telecommunication
> >services.  Now double that if you want to include professional development.
> >Now develop a surcharge to cover this and you are probably looking at a ~20%
> >-25% surcharge on people's phone bills once you include residential universal
> >service also - will the FCC support such a tax??
> 
> Most estimates place the telecommunications cost for providing K-12 schools and
> libraries with Internet access at $1 - 2 billion.  I wonder what services are
> being referred to when numbers in the $20 -- $47 billion range are being throw
> around.  Could you please provide a source(s) for these "estimates"?
> 
>