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		yock on June 14, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout thro... > it can’t possibly cost anywhere near $10k per subscriber to build out fiber normally, even in small cities, can it? I don't know, because I don't possess any expertise in the matter. What I do have is a history of watching public works projects budgets balloon completely out of control. It seems far more likely, given history, that this estimate is low.

dahart on June 14, 2018 [–]

> It seems far more likely, given history, that this estimate is low.

Which history do you mean? A lot of people have fiber to their house, that’s part of history.

If the cost has ballooned out of control, why? Costs don’t have to do that, and they haven’t always done that historically.

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