There are a lot more cows than people with money in rural/remote areas. Getting fiber to remote unserved areas is not a technical problem, it's a money/political problem. On a good day, deploying 400 km of fiber costs in the ballpark of $10M. To that you then have to add the recurring costs of operations, maintenance and fees for the use of the right of way. If the community can pay for that, all is good and well, just have at it. If not, somebody has to subsidize it and then it becomes a political problem. Jared ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> on behalf of Alain Hebert <ahebert at pubnix.net> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2017 8:05 PM To: nanog at nanog.org Subject: Friday musing - Long distance fiber deployment resources Warning: For just plain curiosity at the moment. I was looking for publicly accessible feasibility studies, white papers, etc, about long distance fiber deployment. (> 400km, aka >250 miles) The interest comes from documenting myself about how poorly deserved are the northern communities in Canada. And how "freakn a shame it is to get pwned" by France telecom wise =D. At this point my Goolge Fu is hardly getting thru the pointless clutter search engines accumulated over the years... From the numerous input so far: A lot of the attempts where made to use facilities like rail or electrical grid distribution, but it always ended squashed by a massive push back from the telecom industries, and in one case, maybe the FMI. I'm thinking: If people can invest millions into DOTCOM that put fitbits on cows... There must be a way to help those communities. And ourself, from under the telecom giants. Thanks. ----- Alain Hebert ahebert at pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.net Fax: 514-990-9443 PubNIX Inc. – Branché sur le monde – Connected to the World<http://www.pubnix.net/> www.pubnix.net PubNIX is a boutique Internet service provider with personalized service that offers you an alternative to "Big Telco". At PubNIX, we are committed to providing you