Construction Cost (Score 1)

I work for a local ISP that started off offering Dialup and recently purchased a fiber network

Our biggest problem to offering FTTH is the cost of attaching to the poles or going underground. The majority of the poles in my city and surrounding suburbs are old and crowded. When we permit them we are spinning a roulette wheel as to how much it will cost us to perform the "make ready" on those poles. Even poles that we cannot find a problem with come back with costs for adjustments. This makes it nearly impossible for us to estimate the cost to build in a neighborhood.

To my knowledge, when Google was evaluating cities, this was a major criteria, and from what I understand they were granted easy access to the poles in Kansas City. I also later read that they were running into problems attaching to some poles after they started.

We would love nothing more than to provide FTTH in our city.

Our local cable company, Time Warner, and phone company Verizon are not investing in this solution. Time Warner Cable has invested in Fiber to the node and we do have DOCSIS 3 in parts of the town.