What he said.
Getting a pole attachment contract doesn't cost much. Verizon had an
application fee and some pretty specific insurance and bonding
requirements. Not free, but nothing crazy.
The hardest part so far has been getting in touch with the correct
person. You ask around about "pole attachment" or "Joint use of plant"
and keep asking until somebody knows what you're talking about.
Once you have the contract you can apply to attach to specific poles.
You'll do a walk through (or drive through) with the pole owners and
look for problems. Yes make ready can be nuts. So far the typical
problem for me has been the pole being too short, so there's not enough
room for me to go above the phone line while also being 40" from the
transformer. Our power company set the price at $5000 to replace a pole
and re-attach their lines and equipment. Typically that too-short pole
was old and had an old transformer and then they'll say, oh shucks we
have to replace the transformer too. Now it's $10-15k.
Oh you'll also pay rent for poles. It'll be peanuts on small projects,
but if you get onto 1,000 poles it'll turn into real money.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 9/4/2017 7:40:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Frontier Pole Attachment contact
Generally you don’t have to be a CLEC for anything. You can do most of
the work yourself. The thing that gets you is the “make ready” stuff.
You can be on the hook for total pole replacement costs of your plant
overloads the pole.
From:Chris Fabien
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2017 3:09 PM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Frontier Pole Attachment contact
Cost, approval process, can you do the work yourself, do you have to be
a CLEC?
On Sep 4, 2017 4:05 PM, "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]> wrote:
I've done it with other companies, but not Frontier. What did you
want to know?
------ Original Message ------
From: "Chris Fabien" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 9/4/2017 10:54:46 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Frontier Pole Attachment contact
Mike do you have any info you can share about what the process and
costs involved in this would be?
On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]>
wrote:
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From: "timreichhart" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, September 4, 2017 9:11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Frontier Pole Attachment contact
Mike
if you can send it to me also that would be great.
Tim
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 09/03/17 09:07
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Frontier Pole Attachment contact
Thank you Mike!
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Sent: 9/2/2017 9:46:29 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Frontier Pole Attachment contact
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From: "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]>
To:[email protected]
Sent: Friday, September 1, 2017 3:21:15 PM
Subject: [AFMUG] Frontier Pole Attachment contact
Maybe a long shot, but does anyone here have a contact at Frontier
Telephone for pole attachment or joint use of plant?
Thanks,
Adam
