On 27/10/16 21:48, Aaron Wood wrote: > That sounds like it was in the right ballpark. Trenching is so > expensive, only doing it every couple decades sounds like a reasonable > plan (even better if you trench conduit that you can run replaceable > cables in (which is what AT&T did when they took U-Verse into the Santa > Cruz mountains).
Yes, except that in the years leading up to 2000/2001 everyone had the attitude "build it and they will come", meaning that there was a race for everyone to get their own fiber into the ground which actually drove the cost up rather than down, due to a lack of capacity in the contracting sector, and also because lots of governments and local authorities saw this stqggering peak in network construction activity as an opportunity to make lots of money from rights of way. _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
