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Not sure what urban fiber costs, but in rural the overall cost of Fiber-to-the-home comes out to at least $30-40k a mile for aerial construction, which is legit
by friendofblueno 6y ago
Not sure what urban fiber costs, but in rural the overall cost of Fiber-to-the-home comes out to at least $30-40k a mile for aerial construction, which is legitimately hard to make work if you have less than 10 homes per mile without some subsidy.
The cost is ~30% cheaper if you are a telephone company though and can overlash the fiber on your existing telephone lines.
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- octoberfranklin 6y agoYour costs are way, way, off, on the high end. Think about it: why would overlashing be 30% cheaper? It involves exactly the same materials (the fiber) and labor (one bucket-truck visit to each pole) save for a $5 bracket. The only thing you save is an extra pole attachment fee. But that's a monthly running cost, not an upfront construction cost. Attachments are ~$1/pole/month in the 30 states with regulated pole attachment rates and in the same ballpark for most (though not all) jurisdictions in the other 20. Dunno how you got from that to $10k construction cost savings. Sounds like you got quoted some fiber contractor's "I get to buy a new car" price. ISPs buy their own bucket trucks and hire linemen. Even so, $250/home setup cost for fiber is a bargain. CenturyLink charges $200 setup for crappy 10mbit copper DSL and people still buy it.