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Re:Bill to Require Fiber Optic Cable Friendly Highway Constr... by 9999 on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @08:48PM (#2810185)
Verizon has all but abandoned their FIOS deployments. I wish there were more companies like Sonic doing fiber deployments in high density cities. I assume that isn't happening because of the Telco/Cable duopoly that controls easement rights in almost every city.
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Re:Bill to Require Fiber Optic Cable Friendly Highway Constr... by powertower on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:11PM (#2810585)
Why did they abandon it?
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Re:Bill to Require Fiber Optic Cable Friendly Highway Constr... by count on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @01:36AM (#2810899)
All the relatively cheap installs are done. Running fiber is expensive.
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Re:Bill to Require Fiber Optic Cable Friendly Highway Constr... by dkokelley on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:33PM (#2812878)
If I owned a home, I would seriously consider paying for that fiber. As far as I know, there are no providers that will let a private party run their own fiber.
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Re:Bill to Require Fiber Optic Cable Friendly Highway Constr... by count on Saturday July 30, 2011 @12:34AM (#2824880)
It would cost tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars, minimum. Probably more, if they're not already in your neighborhood with it. There are dozens of companies that'll run you private fiber - you just have to foot the whole bill. L3 and Cox both do it in my area, for example. This isn't a residential cable/ftth deployment, but it sure is a provider running private fiber. It's also orders of magnitude more than residential FIOS.
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