said by Tzale:said by rahvin112:My father in-law works for a rural telcom that you have never heard of in a county in nevada you have never heard of. Total number of residents in the county is probably about 5000 spread over 100's of square miles, most residents are concentrated in 3 towns of approximately 300, 600 and 1500 people respectively with the remaining residents in farmsteads. They are building out a FTTP network because it does make economic sense. Fiber has many many benefits over copper, resistance to water infiltration and EM interferance are just a couple that are huge maintenance issues with copper. According to what he has told me the installed cost per resident is around $1200 right now and costs are falling dramatically year on year. Conduit has all been purchased and is currently being installed using in-house crews. In a year or two they will buy the fiber and pull and splice and probably in about 5 the entire county will be FTTP.
You don't get more rural than the telecom in question and they are confident that fiber makes sense. As someone else said, Wall street and their short sided vision of quarterly profits, not long term viability are the difficult sell. Any CEO worth his money will take the short 5 year hit to the stock to build out the fiber and realize the long term benefits of a fully fiber network.
As I sit here typing this from a building on Wall Street, I have to respectively disagree....
Publicly traded Companies only exist to turn a profit and make their
shareholders and CEOs employees richer... They don't exist as a charity... FTTH in a rural area is a waste. In a town of 300, 600 or 1500 people it WILL work... Hell, we have had people on this site provide fiber to the home service to one or two block areas (10 - 20 customers)... But it simply isn't worth running fiber to one customer every five miles... Think about what you're saying... Wherever there is relatively close locations that need to be linked, it will work.. But you also have to consider the profit ratio to cost.. Companies are not charities and aren't going to spend thousands of man hours and millions of dollars to make a couple thousand dollars per year from a small town in the middle of no where... This is where LOCAL telecoms (like the one you mentioned) shine compared to the conglomerate telecoms.
-Tzale
Fixed it for ya! 
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