We’ve been laying fiber for one of the major carriers for about two years how. In what we designate a Central Business District it can cost over $900 a FOOT to lay fiber. The suburban areas are about half that but it’s much more spread out. So the costs are about even when the numbers are run.
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So the longterm power cost and the increase in bandwidth must be worth it to someone, eh? Without a faster ground-based network, there won't be any mobile phone capacity buildout, so, laying it now makes sense.