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[AB] How Far would Shaw go with fiber

Hey everyone,

Im looking at a rural property roughly 4km for a shaw serviced area. Would shaw be willing to connect the property up and also what would the cost be? Im looking at around 75k in the bank for this project...

If someone has another company or a site i can get more information from PM it to me.

Thanks

If you're talking business internet only, they should be able to do that (costs would be the only question), but if you're looking for residential services (TV, internet, phone) that might be harder.

I remember one of my previous employers trying to get coax services to his bay in a business park (in Calgary, not far from shaw's North office at the time) and it was going to cost in the 10's of thousands to get hooked up. Never did happen.

If you're looking for the latter: »www.shaw.ca/business/builders/
(even if you're not a new development, I imagine it would be the same people that you need to talk to).

If the former:
»www.shaw.ca/Business/Data-Services/

Yeah I know its not going to be cheap.
I was hoping to come in around $10k/km maybe less I dont know there fiber map.

I was just poking around to see if anyone had spoken to shaw about doing this recently.

»shawbusinesssolutions.ca/sbs/con···tion.jsp

Might be who you need to talk to, but for residental service, after you paying for the installation, try talking to Corbin, he might know who you need to talk to
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Yes, I am not employed and looking for IT work. Have passport, will travel.

Yeah im just trying to find out all i can cause i dont want to buy the land only to find out i cant have the internet that i would need.

4km could do it wirelessly yourself too, that is a fairly short distance

Shaw modem connected to wireless bridge in town, and then other end at your place
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Yes, I am not employed and looking for IT work. Have passport, will travel.

I know of people around that have tried that... the provider forget who.... theyve had nothing but grief

Not for other people, just yourself.

Point-to-Point, not Point-to-Many

Pair of AN-80i's for example

You're probably thinking of Terego... I have also only heard bad things about them.

Are you looking for someone to install a 4km stretch of dark fiber for you (ie, to connect two sites) or are you looking for fiber internet service to a specific location... which just happens to be 4km from a Shaw serviced area?

Reading this, it sounds like the latter, he is looking at buying a property 4km from a Shaw serviced location, and wants service?
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Yes, I am not employed and looking for IT work. Have passport, will travel.

I've done it for locations a lot further than 4km LOL

If you are considering it, try and get 3.5 GHz... No matter the frequency, it takes a bit of planning/work to get setup.

Just another option, if you want internet only, TV service using that method woud take just a tad bit more work
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Yes, I am not employed and looking for IT work. Have passport, will travel.

Yeah, that is usually the hardest part...

Just to update this thread. i have been in contact with shaw regarding this. I will post what I can when I can.

Thank you everyone

Haha,

Well I got a guestimate back for this project.....

1.15 Million for copper
1.2-1.4 million for fiber

Yeah thats not gonna happen. LOL

Running the line isn't hard, it's convincing someone to terminate on either end. They usually won't as you took all the gravy money away from them by pulling the line yourself.

Well, The materials are under 100k. BUt laying the line underground seems to be the high cost.

A lot of legal right of way issues

Ah no, these sorts of these definitely don't cross my desk :P.

I know nothing Jon Snow, nothing.

Too bad.

4 km of line is no small job. It's not just running some coax or fiber in a trench and calling it a day. 4km is a major extension of the plant, requiring many other pieces of equipment to make it work.

Right of way issues can certainly be a factor as Shaw typically leases space from a third party, and in some cases requires that third party to pull the lines.
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I think the job would beyond just connecting a 4km fiber up to the existing plant. Is there dark fiber or spare wavelengths in a dwdm band back to the headend. Sounds like your farm is far from town? The radio point-to-point sounds like the best solution, especially with the 75k budget.