option one may open the door to their bandwidth. we looked at something similar, charge a discounted customer build, we own the fiber/duct, their discounted build cost offset a substantial amount of isp build cost. they get a 2 strand lease for x year 1$/year. Everybody but the boss is on board
On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 2:24 PM Mark - Myakka Technologies <m...@mailmt.com> wrote: > We may have an opportunity to bid on a fiber project to a rural > elementary school in our footprint. RFP has not been published yet, > so we have had only high level talks about this. > > We can do this 3 ways. > > 1. A completely new build out for the school. Their own fiber, ducts, > handholes, etc. About 16 miles of state road so DOT will be > involved. > > 2. About 4 miles new build on a state road which will get them to our > footprint. We then lease them the other 12 miles on our fiber. > > 3. About 4 miles new build on a state road to our footprint, then we > attempt to pull their fiber through our duct for the remaining 12 > miles. > > > Option #1 is going to be the most time consuming and most expensive. > But they are only out of pocket 20%. E-Rate will pick up the other > 80%. Advantages to them, they own everything. Disadvantage, they > have to maintain everything. No real advantage to us, Just takes us > away from doing what we do. Maybe we can get a maintenance contract > from them for fiber cuts, etc. But I doubt it. > > Option #2 quickest cleanest way to go. Bang out a 4 mile run and be > done with it. Disadvantages to them, reoccurring charges. Not sure > if dark fiber is covered under e-rate. > > Option #3 try to squeeze their fiber into our current duct. We use > 1.25" duct and I think our current fiber is .75", so it would be tight > depending on count. Is there a way to sub-duct existing duct? I know > I saw some high count low diameter dense fiber at one of the WISPA > shows. > > Opinions? > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > -- > > Thanks, > Mark mailto:m...@mailmt.com > > Myakka Technologies, Inc. > www.Myakka.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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