I am rural and utterly tired of Comcast and still not having the mid-split. Regardless, it still wouldn’t be fast enough for me. They’re playing games with our township by not acknowledging that a new franchise agreement needs to be written up and/or signed (been going on for like a year). When I drive around the area I’m always looking at the lines running between poles. One day I noticed one of those round fiber splice enclosures on a numbered route about 5 miles from my home. I followed it and lo and behold it feeds the local cell tower. The line keeps coming towards my home to an intersection maybe a half mile away. I’m thinking this is some obscure company that leases out dark fibers to people. How do I find out who owns the lines? If I did find out, and that’s their game, how would one connect to the internet via dark fiber?
That wasn’t just a fuck-off number. Building out infrastructure is expensive. Line crews, police details, permits, lease fees, improvements fees, etc… 60k for 10 miles actually sounds reasonable compared to some of the prices I’ve seen.
$60k for 10 miles is super cheap unless you owned all the land between. I was quoted $15k to run an additional copper line so I could have bonded DSL a quarter of a mile up my driveway.