ExcerptsAndCitations t1_isq7ron wrote on October 17, 2022 at 9:52 PM

Reply to comment by chibi-totoro 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

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.

gargoso t1_isrzdwd wrote on October 18, 2022 at 7:32 AM

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.