It may not be the best area to go into... but it is the area I'm already in. I'm really debating about whether to do further expansion. I suppose I can just be conservative and only expand where I can get sufficient return in the 3 year window.
Does anyone have any examples of successful low-cost rural fiber deployments? On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Wireless Admin <wirel...@htn.net> wrote: > Remember, this is government. Government is the only thing that can > fail miserably and still exist. For them payday still happens on Friday > even after such a failure. Retirement with a pension is a given…… > > > > Steve B. > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Christopher Gray > *Sent:* Monday, July 06, 2015 3:10 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Plan to Compete with Municipal Fiber? > > > > About $40M is grant funding from the state for "last mile" services that > is only available to municipalities. The balance of the funding is coming > from town borrowing. My town will receive about $1.2M from the grant and > will vote in September whether to authorize $2.3M of borrowing that would > be paid with property tax. > > > > I'm 95% sure this will go through, and the network would be lit in about 3 > years, but I can't get their numbers to work out. I cannot see how they can > actually provide service and maintain their network and offer a base > service of only $50 / month. If that jumps to $100, I could see remaining > competitive, though. > > > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > > Where is the funding coming from? > > I would not be comfortable building in an area where I am sure to get over > built. > > > > *From:* Christopher Gray <cg...@graytechsoftware.com> > > *Sent:* Monday, July 06, 2015 11:56 AM > > *To:* af@afmug.com > > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Plan to Compete with Municipal Fiber? > > > > Several of the rural towns in my planned coverage area are looking into > municipal fiber (average density about 10 premises per fiber mile, all > above ground). They're claiming $50 for 25 Mbps service, $79 for 100 Mbps, > and $109 for 1 Gbps. They already have funding authorized in about half of > the towns they are targeting... but they'd be about 3 years from providing > any service. > > > > Is it reasonable or possible to compete with such a thing? Should I ignore > any area that plans to fund this, or might it be worth getting a foothold > before their system is lit? > > > > Thanks - Chris > > >
