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elvey
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San Francisco, CA
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reply to packetscan
Re: Good for Shapiro

said by packetscan See Profile :

Depends..

Do you need to close the road at all?
-the township might require a police officer(s) to direct traffic.
Is it going in the ground?
- survey fees, researching other utilities in the area, cost of materials.
Are you using Overhead poles? Who owns these poles? do they require rent?

There are so many little things to think about including supplies, man power, depreciation on tools and vehicles.

If you have to open the road, Open your checkbook.
I had to fix a 4x6 ft section of roadway after fixing a sewer line. that was 5k. So dropping conduits must be about the same ball park.
Yes, costs add up fast, but this is a 'rural' area. So I assume everything is above ground. (I wonder how rural 'rural' is...). Rental costs don't factor into the figure in question. I wonder how long a cable signal (TV/Broadband) can go in COAX and how it compares to DSL over UTP.
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packetscan
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join:2004-10-19
Bridgeport, CT
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reply to elvey
Depends..

Do you need to close the road at all?
-the township might require a police officer(s) to direct traffic.
Is it going in the ground?
- survey fees, researching other utilities in the area, cost of materials.
Are you using Overhead poles? Who owns these poles? do they require rent?

There are so many little things to think about including supplies, man power, depreciation on tools and vehicles.

If you have to open the road, Open your checkbook.
I had to fix a 4x6 ft section of roadway after fixing a sewer line. that was 5k. So dropping conduits must be about the same ball park.
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This is the Curse of Being a college graduate.

shapiro44

join:2004-03-01
Highland, NY
reply to footballdude
Cablevision put up a new node in my neighborhood.
Not right on my pole but close enough.


footballdude
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join:2002-08-13
Imperial, MO

reply to elvey
said by elvey See Profile :

I guess it's not obvious to some, but it's obvious to me that it doesn't cost 20 grand to run cable a few hundred feet in a rural area.
Perhaps it was necessary to install some sort of high speed signal booster as well? That's the problem where I live. My closest CO is DSL ready, but I live just a little too far from it to get DSL. To put in the necessary equipment to boost the signal for my neighborhood would cost around $20,000, or so I'm told.


elvey
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join:2001-02-17
San Francisco, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
·Comcast

reply to Cheese
Karl -

Great story.

Thanks.

I guess it's not obvious to some, but it's obvious to me that it doesn't cost 20 grand to run cable a few hundred feet in a rural area.

It's about as credible as the claim that allowing competitors in an oligopoly to merge increases competition.
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SBC is the world's second-largest SpamHaus and leads an Organized Crime Syndicate. Also see TURN.org or UCAN.
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