Jason how much does it cost for contractors to do this? Tim
-----Original Message----- From: "Jason McKemie" <j.mcke...@veloxinetbroadband.com> To: af@afmug.com Date: 01/20/16 06:16 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber financing / loans? How are you paying for it. Very true. I found it cheaper to use contractors. On Wednesday, January 20, 2016, Sterling Jacobson <sterl...@avative.net> wrote: Partner with a drilling and fiber pull/splice company? Fiber requires a LOT of crew and machinery that WISPs don't have and are not trained to operate. You could do small jobs and pay retail on the fiber construction. Backhaul with high capacity wireless into areas and bury/hang fiber (how I started). Then fill in with middle mile fiber down the road. Or do the reverse and backhaul with fiber and stick with high capacity wireless for last mile (Vivint?) Then fill in with fiber to the home later. The capital required to run a crew to do fiber is pretty high. And that doesn't get you any actual fiber in the ground, that's also very capital intensive on top of that. Salary is the hard part. Keeping large crews happy in down time is where problems arise. Double training staff might work, but I haven't seen much of that. There is a LOT of money to be had in owning and operating a good drilling and fiber crew around here. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Graham McIntire Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 3:50 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fiber financing / loans? How are you paying for it. I'm curious as well as to what equipment we need to go from 100% pure WISP to doing fiber as well. On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 4:44 PM, TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com> wrote: 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 ?
