ADSL-CO CRTC Case Update.... Page 6

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freejazz_RdJ @ 3rd Nov 04:29PM:
Re: ADSL-CO CRTC Case Update....

On the fiber costs, your actual cost has a huge range depending on the fiber topology/technology and scale. The quotes of 15K for a fiber loop is likely a new buried lateral to a fiber splice vault on a main trunk... like an office building would get. These also require contracts of several years to help recoup the balance of the investment.

FiOS can do it for less money because they use B/GPON and have massive scale. That said, it's a lot of cash. If their average cost per home passed is $800, and 33% of homes subscribe, then each subscribing household needs to pay for $2400 of network spend.
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Guspaz @ 3rd Nov 04:29PM:
Re: ADSL-CO CRTC Case Update....

said by Gruesome :

That's what he was quoted bandwidth was on top of that but it was really cheap

Then he wasn't quoted that; if you're getting a 200Mbps link from Cogent, that means you have 1Gbps fibre and a 200Mbps commit.

If the $820 is just for the physical 1Gbps fibre, then the "200/200" part is just made-up, since that implies a commit that he isn't making, and isn't the max capacity of the line either.
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MaynardKrebs @ 3rd Nov 06:50PM:
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said by InvalidError :

Now, where do you find $600M worth of non-foreign long-term capital to get started on Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec?

Ontario Teachers Pension Fund (I know senior managers there quite well). OMERS. CPIB.

That's just a few names of many similar ones.
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