[160340] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Google Fiber a model for Municipal Networks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Feb 4 12:59:19 2013
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:59:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130204170530.GA91182@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>
> > Remember that Google cherry-picked which city it would serve, so it was able
> > to identify location that is likely less challenging and expensive to serve
> > than the average. A lot of Google's Kansas City build will not be buried
>
> True, but I think it means we've bound the problem. It appears to
> take $1400-$4500 to deploy fiber to the home in urban and suburban
> areas, depending on all the fun local factors that effect costs.
And look what appeared in my mailbox just now:
http://broadcastengineering.com/ip-network/google-s-high-speed-fiber-installation-provides-economic-growth-kc
Cheers,
-- jra
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