Fiber definately has its place and advantages. Nobody will deny that. Another point of view is... How quickly can you get a grant or loan application written for Wireless versus fiber? How realistic is it to pull off your fiber plan versus Wireless, any time soon? How quickly can you reap the benefits of the plan? These things need to be considered.
I can go online and within 24 hours, have a pretty good idea of atleast one tower for evey hop along the way, with a pretty good idea of cost, to start planning, to just about anywhere. This data is available to us both by experience, vendors databases, and Topo maps. When it comes to Fiber, there are so many unforseen barriers, when one is not a "ILEC". WISPs are at a HUGE advantage when they do not have the easement/permit/right-of-way rights that an ILEC has. How realisitic is it that a typical WISP can actually implement deployment and own their fiber? At minimum at least requries CLEC status. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Scrivner" <j...@scrivner.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Cost of bandwidth Have you priced building your own fiber? If costs are that high and fiber transport is that scarce then you could certainly find many who would buy an "exit ramp on your information super-highway" if you build your own fiber. It has a life cycle of up to 30 plus years so you should be able to stretch out the loan over many years. I am looking at this myself. I think that it makes sense on long runs like this to consider fiber. Pricing has come down considerably. Just my 2 cents worth. Scriv On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Travis Johnson <t...@ida.net> wrote: > Because it's 200+ miles away and crosses state lines. It would be at > least 10 hops. Tower space is roughly $250/month around here.... so > that's $2,500 per month just for the towers... then you have > maintenance, equipment cost ($100k) and it would only save me about > $1,000 per month. > > Travis > Microserv > > Harold Bledsoe wrote: >> Those of you that are paying >$50/Mbps, what is keeping you from >> building your own backhaul to cheaper bandwidth (wireless, dark fiber, >> etc.)? It seems to me that this would be a major consideration in the >> business plan as this is a big MRC. Don't wait for someone to bring you >> cheap bandwidth...go get it! :-) >> >> -Hal >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
