AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network

Re:AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network by walshemj on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @07:18PM (#5528862)

It can cost a metric fuckton of money. When I worked up in scotland for BT the press officer for Scotland told me a story about how BT had miscalculated the cost of providing service to a very remote location and ended up having to pay around £200,000 to provide service to one property.

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Re:AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network by officemonkey on Friday April 12, 2013 @06:34AM (#5537663)

Actually, that's not a bad price, considering that they get to use the outlier every time they need to justify not providing service to remote customers.

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Re:AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network by walshemj on Saturday April 13, 2013 @07:25PM (#5545100)

Well it was over the max allowed for providing service - normally they hit the government up for subsidy to provide service to the highlands and islands.

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