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chibi-totoro t1_ispezwx wrote

Reply to comment by insta-kip in Comcast wanted $210,000 for Internet—so this man helped expand a co-op fiber ISP | Fed up with Comcast and AT&T, Silicon Valley residents started their own network. by chrisdh79

The article says they all paid $12000 per house with $155 a month ongoing maintenance fee.

It's not $210k but its not something the poors can participate in.

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insta-kip t1_ispnzzu wrote

Looks like I should have read the whole article. Yeah $155 a month is a bit high. I wonder if more users are added if that would lower the maintenance costs?

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AfricanNorwegian t1_isqbge1 wrote

$155 a month is not bad considering it’s 10gbit/s

I’m currently paying $130 for 1gbit/s

It’s really only the installation fee that’s the main barrier.

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ExcerptsAndCitations t1_isq7ron wrote

I live in Flyover Country USA, just outside a small town of ~30k. With the 2009 Broadband Act money, trunk fiber was installed along my property line in 2018, and I was able to get the local fiber ISP to connect me. The nearest vault was about 1/8th mile away from my front yard.

For the low, low Homie Hookup price of $7,000 in trenching and dirt work out of my own pocket and $135/month for the next three years, I was able to get 50 Mbps internet.

The alternative was dialup from CenturyLink.

People who don't work in telecom or outside plant construction have no idea what it really costs to install infrastructure.

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gargoso t1_isrzdwd wrote

It is indeed a lot of work to lay cables in the ground in a big country but it still does not make sense to be that expensive compared to other big countries or countries with small population.

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