I recall working in a building that: 1. Was the former HQ for a local telecom company 2. Was now an office building with a couple floors of data. Ages ago, on

I recall working in a building that: 1. Was the former HQ for a local telecom company 2. Was now an office building with a couple floors of data. Ages ago, one of the DC providers in the building had run 36 cores to the roof to service a telco. It was a massive undertaking, the building is riddled with asbestos and old plant. Had multiple renovations etc. Anyway, a few years later, every telco in the state wanted to be on that rooftop. And they had the only reliable means to service it with fibre. That 36 core became a massive profit generating asset, one that they could have monetised even further if they had have run 100 core instead. But it was never feasible to drill holes for a new duct (Asbestos regulations getting tighter), and it was never feasible to shut down 12 telcos for a day to use the existing fibre as a draw cable. Getting a single core rented here, and throwing on Bidi's, was like mana from the gods at the time.