Depends where you are and where the line needs to be run. Shutting down a busy city road? Gonna be expensive...
At our current building, we just had fiber run from an in-ground vault already on premises (but not serving the building) into our MPOE - cost about $18k to go less than 100 yards... majority of-which didn't require boring.
My original point was, people want fast internet out in the boonies but aren't willing to pay for it. Few residential customers are going to shell out $600+ a month for fast internet... but that's what's required for the ISP to recoup their construction costs in anything resembling a reasonable time period.
We will pay for it over the course of the years of paying for the service. Plus, the economic benefits of enabling remote production/consumption of digital services probably outweighs the cost by an order of magnitude or two.
> We will pay for it over the course of the years of paying for the service.
Yes, at like $600+ a month over 6 years... you can do the math, it's nasty.
> Plus, the economic benefits of enabling remote production/consumption of digital services probably outweighs the cost by an order of magnitude or two
ISP's aren't a charity service. Even your municipality cannot afford to run fiber to the boonies.
Fiber across a street should not be $100k.
Maybe municipal regulations make it harder than it seems. I’m curious.