Today, most of those businesses have connected their entire intranet to the Internet though a single, large pipe. Apartment building dwellers, however, have barely begun to question the way they approach the problem. Costs To date, no one is offering residential network management service. If you want a building network, you will need an on-site expert to set up and maintain it. In the U.S., the local telephone company is responsible for wires to the building.
Residents are responsible for wires in their apartment.
The building owner is responsible for the wiring within the rest of the building. I suspect it will take at least another two to three years for people to realize that IP is as fundamental as telephone service. At that point, they will start making noise about wiring capable of carrying data from the basement to their apartments. Network equipment vendors will start building and pricing hardware for this market, and of course, residential network management companies will be formed. In the meantime, we have to plan and build everything ourselves.