On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Jay Ashworth wrote:
You can assume $8-1200 per passing, if you fiber the entire town at once (my example was 12000 passings, 3-pr, in 2.3 sqmi). Then you're going to have to operate the core, which will take power and at least 5 people to man it 24/7. And finally, figure on at least 4-6 multi-10GE uplinks, and those things don't exactly grow on trees -- there's no sense in providing 1G/1G if people can't actually use it.
We only want them to run the L1 network, not L2.
And where's that money come from? Yup: local taxes, mostly property.
Stockholm municipal fiber (L1 only) has been operating fiber network since 1994, they're doing ~20MUSD profit on ~100MUSD turnover per year. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se