When I built my house a few years ago I put a 0 entry hand hole with 2" conduit in the ROW in front and pulled 96 SM into the basement. It takes a little convincing to get the providers to connect out there instead of running their own lines into my house but so far so good. ------ Original Message ------
From "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com> To nanog@nanog.org Date 12/27/2024 1:29:00 PM Subject Re: New home builders without wires
About 20% of new home construction is owner-financed ("Custom" homes). The builder will add essentially any "commercially reasonable" options the owner is willing to pay for. But even the rich can't fix broadband access beyond their property line.
About 80% of new home construction is builder-financed ("Tract" or "Spec" homes). Builders have a fixed menu of construction options. A "Smart Home" seems to mean a Ring doorbell and Nest thermostat. The neighborhood infrastructure is usually the minimum required by building code. In many states, there is essentially no minimum outside of city limits.
About 1% is Ultra-Rich home construction. As one builder described it "The Laws of Physics don't apply to these homes."
I looked up the top 10 broadband network provider CEO's home addresses (don't worry, I'm not posting a list of CEO home addresses). Some have several houses, so I chose one of their residential addresses near their corporate HQ -- assuming Return-to-Office means they commute to their corporate HQ.
Eight out of the top 10 broadband CEO's homes had 10 Gbps service available, and all had at least 1 Gbps service available at the home address nearest their HQ according to the FCC Broadband Map. I didn't check apparent secondary/vacation homes.