Did you offer to buy the equipment needed to "break into?" Not unlike big 
carriers to WAY over quote equipment for you to join?

Scottie

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Kevin Neal <[email protected]>
Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]>
Date:  Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:12:13 -0600

>I was recently quoted $300,000 to break into a long-haul fiber route
>(not Verizon), that was to cover the bulk of the equipment costs to
>break in and then they could give me a good rate per megabyte.
>
>-Kevin
>
>
>On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:50 PM, John Valenti <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'm assuming this is hopeless, but somebody here can probably confirm:
>>
>> Verizon has fiber running down the dirt road that passes by a grain
>> leg I'm using. (I'm told it was put in for 911 service to Bath, MI)
>> Is it possible to have them tap into it and sell bulk bandwidth to
>> me?  For less than 10s of thousand$?
>>
>> If it helps, there is a small concrete vault nearby that the fiber
>> runs thru. The farmer says the cover has been left open on that for
>> years. You can look in and see a metal can (about 8" by 2') that the
>> fiber runs thru.
>>
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