Started fiber in 2012 and never looked back. Every profit my wireless makes
goes into expanding the fiber plant. My design is always based on what will
take the least maintenance once installed. It defiantly cost more to do it the
way we do it, but we forget we have customers once they are installed. We
splice everything, and install customer drops in 3/4" conduit and are all
underground, except for 8 blocks in a down town area. Once my wireless is 25%
of my revenue I think I will have a WISP for sale if anyone once it. I will
probably be at that in 2 years.
On 9/6/19, 11:43 AM, "AF on behalf of Robert Andrews" <af-boun...@af.afmug.com
on behalf of i...@avantwireless.com> wrote:
Must be Zayo...
On 09/06/2019 09:31 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
> That's what everyone keeps saying.... but my fiber provider sends me
> e-mails every other week about pole fires taking out fiber, trees taking
> out fiber, wind taking out fiber, etc.
>
> On 9/6/19 12:30 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
>> When it's broken it can be expensive, but frankly it doesn't break
>> that often.
>> -Adam
>>
>> On 9/6/2019 12:29 PM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
>>> Except the contractor gets paid every time the fiber gets broken.
>>>
>>> On 9/6/19 12:18 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
>>>> If you've only got 2 or 3 people *total* then you'd be relying on
>>>> contractors a lot and basically just being an owner/GC. Your capex
>>>> will be higher than with in-house labor, but console yourself with
>>>> the idea that the contractor only gets paid once, and you get paid
>>>> for 50 years.
>>>>
>>>> -Adam
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 9/6/2019 8:30 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
>>>>> People ask why I don’t do fiber. The following story pretty much
>>>>> sums it up. For those doing fiber, how do you do it with a 2 or 3
>>>>> man team? We’d be run ragged. How do you stay sain?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Someone was logging up in Ogdensburg near Joe Hill and took a tree
>>>>> down which took another tree down which took another tree down
>>>>> which snapped off the side arms of the utility pole taking out the
>>>>> powerlines which burned the fiber underneath it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Last night about 11 o’clock I drove up there on my way home and
>>>>> found the Crown Castle guys trying to figure out where the fiber
>>>>> damage was, I talk to them for a moment and they were like yeah
>>>>> it’s like 2500 feet away from here but we can’t figure out where
>>>>> the fiber goes, I said follow me, so they got over there and
>>>>> started work.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Zito was already over there fixing their fiber with about 10 guys
>>>>> and five trucks.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just spun back up there and as of this morning they (both
>>>>> companies) are still trying to figure out why the fiber is not
>>>>> working.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Add to this the utility easement is on the side of a mountain and
>>>>> not right beside the road. These guys had entire teams and haven’t
>>>>> fixed 1,500ft of fiber in 12 hours plus had to wait nearly 7hrs to
>>>>> even access the local due to power lines down.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
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