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Re:Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout by amazon2 on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @03:45PM (#12799787)
They might pay, if they got to chose their provider freely like they can in Sweden, where they build open access networks where any ISP can provide service.
Re:Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout by mjevans on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:09PM (#12799993)
I bet you could build it in to the sale price of reselling a home. IE this improvement must be made to make it distinct in the market.
Re:Google Fiber Cutting Jobs and Halting Rollout by rdl on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:19PM (#12800078)
I would happily pay 100-200k if I could capitalize it on a 30y 0-3% mortgage to bring fiber from a carrier neutral facility (say, the Westin Building in Seattle) to a farm. It's about $10k/km for aerial fiber and $50k/km for buried fiber in most places (far higher in a city, but the distances are shorter.)

There's probably a reasonable market doing this at $10-20k/house. There's clearly a market for multi-family dwellings like condos/apartment buildings (webpass, condointernet, etc. have shown), but maybe the next step will be neighborhoods pre-wired with fiber to some kind of switchbox with your choice of carrier coming in.