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| 1226382 | 2011-08-26 23:56:00 | Hi All. So Wanganui is digging up UBD streets to instal fibre for Broadband. I have two questions.I assume the powers that be are paying for this. A) Who pays for the fibre from the street to the house & how much will it cost? B) I have not seen any prices from ISPs to have UFB plans. So how much will that cost? A few years ago we got a price to run gas down our right of way drive. 75 M from road to meter. Cost for trenching & layng pipe etc $1200. If UFB comes in the same sort of price, then forget it. PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1226383 | 2011-08-27 09:38:00 | What they're doing in Whangarei is to put fibre in the CBD, and a very fast wireless to the suburbs. I suppose in time the fibre will creep further out. If we worried about cellphone towers, then the volume of data going through these wireless internet towers will be a whole lot highter. It may be dumb paranoia, but I'd prefer not being anywhere near one of them, so while the ultra fast speed appeals, I'm currently holding out for the fibre. Given that I put a spade through the phoneline a decade or more ago it might be good to replace it with fibre anyway. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1226384 | 2011-08-27 10:59:00 | I'm not 100% sure on A) so I'll hold off answering, but in respect to B) you can check out Ubergroup to get a rough idea: http://www.ubergroup.co.nz/ | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1226385 | 2011-08-27 18:41:00 | @Poppa John, Perhaps you had better move closer to the road - 75 metres ! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1226386 | 2011-08-27 23:15:00 | @Poppa John, Perhaps you had better move closer to the road - 75 metres ! A) The house is not on wheels. B) It is too heavy to push. PJ:lol: |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1226387 | 2011-08-28 07:37:00 | @Paul cov, you have it slightly wrong re. Whangarei fibre. Fibre is in CBD and suburbs, expanding out to nearby rural so far. Uber have their own hi speed wireless for the more remote rural areas. Thats unrelated to the fibre rollout. :pf1mobmini: |
Catweazle (2535) | ||
| 1226388 | 2011-08-28 08:34:00 | A) The house is not on wheels. B) It is too heavy to push. PJ:lol: Houses can be moved but the council would more than likely object to the house being too close to the road. Most likely cheaper to run cable from the road to the house. :D |
Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1226389 | 2011-08-28 19:18:00 | I read that fibre cable itself is very cheap. (compared to copper wire and I imagine water pipes etc.) So it is really the cost of digging the hole / trench ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1226390 | 2011-08-28 20:59:00 | The cable may be, but it's quite fragile by comparison, not to mention it's nowhere near as easy to splice a fibre cable. You can teach almost anybody how to crimp a CAT5 cable, but fibre is nothing at all like that. That, and it's viewed as a 'premium' product, and so attracts a premium pricetag. An optical audio cable is a fibre cable, and they're still cheap as chips: en.wikipedia.org |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1226391 | 2011-08-28 23:26:00 | I'd expect it to be a little bit pricey at first and come down over time. The companies involved likely need a fairly high customer uptake to support the costs so it shouldn't be ridiculous. I haven't seen any pricing details myself as yet. If they install it and no one uses it the whole project could come to a screeching halt. Some companies have a lot riding on the success of UFB. I'm pretty sure there will be a connection cost but hopefully it will be subsidised to promote uptake. (edited this, not sure how much I'm allowed to say) |
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