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Micro trenching...in suburban or rural deployments?

On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 7:59 PM Kevin Shymkiw <kshymkiw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Clayton,
>
> Did you leverage things like micro trenching for this project?  I may be
> mislead, but I thought micro trenching these days has helped drive the cost
> of doing this down fairly significantly.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2023 at 17:56 Clayton Zekelman <clayton at mnsi.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> The cost is not low.  Trust me on that.  I've been involved in a pretty
>> massive suburban fibre deployment for the past decade... I expect we'll
>> make money sometime in the 2030's... in time for me to retire.
>>
>> At 12:13 PM 02/02/2023, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
>>
>> The cost to build physical layer in much of the suburban and somewhat
>> rural US is low enough anymore that lots of smaller, independent, ISPs are
>> overbuilding the incumbent with fiber and taking a big chunk of their
>> customer base because they are local and care.Â  And making money while
>> doing it.Â
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Clayton Zekelman
>> Managed Network Systems Inc. (MNSi)
>> 3363 Tecumseh Rd. E
>> Windsor, Ontario
>> N8W 1H4
>>
>> tel. 519-985-8410
>> fax. 519-985-8409
>>
>
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