Jerry Richardson wrote:
> I hate to rain on someone's parage but before you can dig under the streets 
> and sidewalks you have to get approval from the City or County. They 
> typically require engineering surveys, and co-ordination with the other 
> utilities such as power, tv, phone, water, sewer, etc. 
>
> Even with directional boring you still have to dig up something somewhere so 
> there will be landscape repair costs, and cleanup.
>
> I would venture to guess it will be about 2000 per house by the time it's all 
> said and done (possibly more).
>   

You are correct. The cost per subscriber for fiber/cable/dsl/copper is 
$1500.00. I actually just recently was talking with some telcom 
executives about this. Oh and that is spread across lots of subscribers 
over several years. You need millions or billions upfront.
> That's a lot of wireless. Even at 10k per wiMax AP you would be way ahead (in 
> 6 months they will be 5k).
>   

Yep.  And wireless doesn't require nearly as much effort in terms of 
rights of way etc.

-- 
Charles Wyble (818) 280 - 7059
http://charlesnw.blogspot.com
CTO Known Element Enterprises / SoCal WiFI project



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