I’m looking for some advice/input from people either public or private about
woes building fiber to reach people outside the footprints of the existing
incumbents.
There is a group of people looking to organize private fiber to reach areas
that are unserved.
There’s been recent local people doing this like Lightspeed (Lansing) and the
Vergennes Broadband folks.
When it come to private right of way, public right of way use, swaps, pole
attach and other things, any best practices people can share either in public
or private?
TL;DR background for those interested:
Many wireless ISPs are finding it harder to locate equipment or utilize
frequencies based on interference or congestion. Advanced encodings like
16-QAM that are seen in 802.11ac hardware also introduce latencies that are not
ideal. The FCC is also making it harder for equipment to be qualified in this
space, in some cases rightly so due to out of band emissions or just adjacent
frequency noise. The revisions of rules in 5Ghz are helpful, but the cellular
industry is also looking to exploit these frequencies to solve indoor coverage.
There are two groups I’m trying to assist, a local cooperative which is
trying to just own the fiber and let providers gain access and some WISPs that
are looking to improve service due to increase customer demand.
Getting service on the fiber is “easy” once it’s there, but gaining
access or building it is the part I’m looking for insights in.
- Jared
