So give us a rundown on what you consider a minimum equipment list please.
From: Craig Schmaderer Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:04 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FTTH construction tiger team Chuck I am working on this very thing as well. We have been in our small town for 4 years. I think we will be done with it next year for sure. 1500 homes, I think I did 2 drops the first year…. LOL All of my storage and equipment is here taking up a 7200 square foot building. I have 3-4 guys dedicated to fiber now. Before I move into the next town, my plan is to have enough guys that I can install mainline and drops right behind them and hooking up customers right away. Now we spend months on main line and then usually pull and splice fiber all winter. In between this we do drops and installs for the existing plant. So that is why I am heavily looking at a all microduct system from Clearfield. I think with five guys I can run this crew in and just hammer mainline and drops at the same time and start getting a faster return. Got to run…. From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Keefe John Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 3:55 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FTTH construction tiger team Busy and expensive. On 3/30/2017 1:18 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: I am trying to save the money on building my own stuff. But yeah, a nice lean model with best practices and procedures will work both ways. Most fiber contractors I know are very busy. From: Bill Prince Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 12:03 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FTTH construction tiger team As time goes on, it appears that this will be a great opportunity for someone to come up with a model to do fiber build outs as a service to others. If you can figure out where all the time goes and eliminate that part of it , you might be able to make some real $$$. -bp On Thursday, March 30, 2017 10:56 AM, Chuck McCown mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: But I do not want to pay them to make a profit doing this. I want it done at cost. From: Josh Reynolds Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 11:52 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] FTTH construction tiger team There are companies that already do this. They contract for CenturyLink, AT&T, Time Warner, etc. We hired one to do all of our outside plant. Lots of 💰 to be made if you do it right and have a good crew. They always hire local labor for ditch digging, but their splice crews and management are continuous. On Mar 30, 2017 12:50 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: I am considering building a construction team that can drop into a small town or large subdivision, install fiber and move on. Something where I own the construction equipment and keep labor costs low. Want to identify the minimum equipment necessary and the methods of construction to provide the best value. HDD with mud truck Do we need a vacuum excavator? Mini excavator One of these drop plows. Whoever said their guy can do 5-8 homes per day.... yeah that one (to lazy to search who it was). What to use for hand holes? Plastic hand holes? What are the best values for splice cases? Perhaps try UBNT GPON. Can always throw it in the ditch if it does not work. So a best practices/FTTH in a box schedule of equipment and methods is needed. From that I will look at the ROI needed from the equipment as well as the labor costs to estimate the costs to do a subdivision. From that we will look at the ROI on a competitive ARPU to see if an area is worth doing. I keep getting asked to do this, so I guess I better do this.
