Yes, about 3 ½ years. It’s not a WISP, but this infrastructure will hopefully be viable a lot longer.
Even five-year time frame is fine with me. I’m expecting to use this same stuff for 10-20 years. Whatever I build now I want to be able to service 1Gbps minimum, up to 10Gbps per customer with very little change-out. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Kranz Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber financing / loans? How are you paying for it. How do you make money at $2k per sub? If the sub is paying $49/month for internet, that will take forever to pay off. Peter Kranz www.UnwiredLtd.com<http://www.unwiredltd.com/> Desk: 510-868-1614 x100 Mobile: 510-207-0000 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 2:51 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber financing / loans? How are you paying for it. If I do a simple calculation of money invested/loaned and number of subs I get $2088 per sub. That’s active Ethernet, full burial conduit to each house/unit with lots of miles of overbuild and miles and miles of extra fiber/conduit. We also build at cost, not full retail (partners are build crews). I expect from here on out to be nearer half that using existing infrastructure and possibly GPON. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of TJ Trout Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 3:44 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Fiber financing / loans? How are you paying for it. How are all of you fiber guys paying to get this stuff in the ground ? All self financing ? What is a good estimate to bore say 100 or 500 houses passed in a suburban neighborhood that's all asphalt and concrete sidewalks with ~5000sqft lots for pon? I know it could vary vastly but just a ball park ? $1000 per house passed ?
