Honestly good call and we’re looking at raising funds to do exactly that - however some of these buildings have values near a billion dollars each and there is more money in commercial real estate than telecom.
In my experience these things tend to crop-up with ownership of the building being a lot newer than the telco’s presence. at $dayjob I’ve seen it personally - "MPOE access denied, you don’t have an agreement with the RMC” then we produce an agreement (with us) that pre-dates the RMC’s agreement. We can find the docs, but not every telco has every document from generations ago in some cases. I’ve found in almost every business, there is a much greater efficiency presumed than realized. Since I was a child I’ve felt that automation could fix this. —L.B. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC License KJ6FJJ > On Sep 22, 2021, at 8:49 PM, Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/22/21 6:12 PM, Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE wrote: >> If someone were to make us remove a redundant DWDM node, we’d charge them >> list price to ever consider putting it back*, plus a deposit, plus our costs >> for the removal in the first place. Bad move. Enjoy the $8million, it >> could cost more than that to undo this mistake. >> *you’d actually never ever get it back in the form you’d want. We’ll never >> trust the site again and won’t place critical infrastructure there, we’d >> only build back what’s needed to serve the use. > > > > Buy the building then. Owners change and some are more friendly than others. > Why would someone ever place critical infrastructure at a site without a > solid agreement that prohibits removal, or at least making them whole > financially so they don't have to take it out on the next person that comes > along? I'd hate to be the poor customer that gets treated as lesser class > because a previous owner caused hurt feelings.
