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Building owners? Before you get anywhere near the buildings, you have to dig up the streets to run cabling around the city. Any idea how much that costs?
by cimmanom 9y ago
Building owners? Before you get anywhere near the buildings, you have to dig up the streets to run cabling around the city. Any idea how much that costs?
- ybloviator 9y agoPilot is doing this cheaper than others, look into how they get their fiber in the ground...
- notyourday 9y agoThat's what you outsource to the latest incarnation of Metromedia Fiber Network - Zayo.
- Symbiote 9y agoSpeaking of London, talking to building owners is exactly what Hyperoptic did to build out a fibre network in London. Unfortunately, the building owner where I used to live wasn't interested -- it turned out most of the building was empty, people keeping apartments for occasional visits or as an investment :-( https://www.hyperoptic.com/how-hyperoptic-works/ https://www.hyperoptic.com/how-hyperoptic-works/ or https://www.hyperoptic.com/map/ https://www.hyperoptic.com/map/
- isostatic 9y agoDon't you have ducts? How about sewers?
- cimmanom 9y agoThe city's network of utilities long predates any sort of central authority managing them. Each utility maintains its own network of infrastructure, independent of any other; most of them are not mapped, and where mapping has been done it's not shared with the municipalities or other utilities, let alone publicly available. There are no ducts set up for general usage. And the sewers a) aren't human-travelable like the old ones in Paris or parts of London; and b) overflow in heavy rains. You probably don't want to run electrical wiring through them.