It may. We don't use it. Too many freeze/thaw
cycles each winter around here. It would get destroyed in a few years.
Google tried to cheap out in Louisville... didn't
quite work out
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/7/18215743/google-fiber-leaving-louisville-service-ending
- although that was even more sketchy than traditional microtrenching.
As for rural, the business case becomes even more
difficult when you're measuring kilometers per
home passed instead of homes passed per kilometer...
At 07:58 PM 02/02/2023, Kevin Shymkiw wrote:
Clayton,
Did you leverage things like micro trenching for
this project? I may be mislead, but I thought
micro trenching these days has helped drive the
cost of doing this down fairly significantly.
Kevin
On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 17:56 Clayton Zekelman
<<mailto:clay...@mnsi.net>clay...@mnsi.net> wrote:
The cost is not low. Trust me on that. I've
been involved in a pretty massive suburban fibre
deployment for the past decade... I expect we'll
make money sometime in the 2030's... in time for me to retire.
At 12:13 PM 02/02/2023, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
The cost to build physical layer in much of the
suburban and somewhat rural US is low enough
anymore that lots of smaller, independent, ISPs
are overbuilding the incumbent with fiber and
taking a big chunk of their customer base
because they are local and care.ÃÂ And making money while doing it.Ã
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Clayton Zekelman
Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi)
3363 Tecumseh Rd. E
Windsor, Ontario
N8W 1H4
tel. 519-985-8410
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