[173351] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics - ENDGAME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce H McIntosh)
Tue Jul 22 14:48:28 2014
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From: Bruce H McIntosh <bhm@ufl.edu>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:45:21 -0400
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 20:34 +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> > And where's that money come from? Yup: local taxes, mostly property.
>
> Stockholm municipal fiber (L1 only) has been operating fiber network since
> 1994, they're doing ~20MUSD profit on ~100MUSD turnover per year.
>
How often do they refresh and/or forklift their infrastructure? They're
not still running on mid90s optical gear, I hope?
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