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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
