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kudos:1 | said by Telalum :
Interesting claim for cost per home. Is that a homes passed or homes served cost? What industry sources is the $4000 coming from? Obviously Verizon will not publish their exact cost. I can only speak as someone who was recently in the industry with peripheral access to actual costs by carriers. With that said, I can assure you that the cost per home passed and to serve homes has decreased dramatically within the past 3 years. So much to the point where your claims are no longer in the ball park.
I think those numbers have to be wrong... or at least old. You're correct - the cost of fiber has dropped alot in the last couple years - it's a fraction of the cost, per foot, of what it was just a couple years ago. The installation cost per customer has also dropped (from what I'd heard, it's about 1/3 of what it was originally - don't know how accurate that is).
I'm guessing that $4k number is an average for running the fiber in a development, and then running the fiber to the home. But, as I said, I think those numbers are old. |
