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yeah I personally know that when I was getting quotes for a fiber run about ~125m the best quote I got was for just under $10k. That was without having to dig

• namibj 7y ago
  Burial fiber is like 20~40ct/m. Whether you can get a bucket wheel trench excavator through it at speed or have to dig by hand depends on what's in the ground and how hard the ground is, and how long the stretches are. Otherwise, it's like 10~20min to sufficiently properly terminate the fiber at the ends and that. You can likely get around that if you just order pre-terminated fiber at like 1$/plug and just plug it in at the ends instead of splicing. Sure, this will higher losses, but money. Fiber is literally cheaper than copper for >150m or >=10Gbit/s (though direct-attach cables up to 3~5m are even cheaper) if you can get by without field-terminating fibers.
• rasz 7y ago
  This is a 'never seen a shovel yuppie' price. You can rent a walk behind trencher at ~$100-200/day or ~$1-2K/month, it will do 50 meters/day of 1 meter deep trench. Need to lay something in a 40 degree hill overgrown with trees? $200/day AirSpade will do 20 meters/day. Want to hire contractor subcontracting 3 layers deep? that will be $10K.
  • Wheaties466 7y ago
    I completely understand that its possible to do it cheaper. The business then has to take the liability of appointing someone to do this.