When you purchase dark Fiber it can come in two forms a lease and an IRU. A lease is paid monthly and includes the right to use the fiber as well as any maintenance that needs to happen such as locates or repairs. A lease is an expense, not an asset. An IRU is a 20 year upfront payment priced per strand mile while the maintenance is priced per route mile and is paid annually. An IRU is an asset.
-----Mike HammettIntelligent Computing SolutionsMidwest Internet ExchangeThe Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:09:36 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 0 build DF 500k NRC? What's the $4K per month for, fixing fiber cuts? And it sounds like the $500K is for a 20 year lease, not to own it. For $4K per month O&M, they should wash, fluff and fold that fiber daily. -----Original Message----- From: Trey Scarborough Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 6:54 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 0 build DF 500k NRC? In California not to crazy. just depends on where it is. if its in rock or an urban area It could have cost a pretty penny to build. It as well could be on low strand count fiber so you have to eat more of the cost. I have seen a build in an urban environment be 500k a km. Its more likely though that they just want you to go away. I have seen some quotes for 100k just to put in 3 splice tails on an existing IRU. Sometimes it has to do with permitting. One of them happened to be on railroad property.... On 3/7/2016 6:23 PM, TJ Trout wrote: > They want $4k monthly "O&M" with a 500k "20 year IRU" > > Don't really understand this > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuh...@gmail.com > <mailto:eric.kuh...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > 500k NRC is them saying to you "go away and stop bothering us any > further". > > > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 3:33 PM, TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com > <mailto:t...@voltbb.com>> wrote: > > Local lec quoted me 4k mrc for 2 strands DF with a 500k NRC but > no build is involved? Is this legit? > > >
