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Equipment cost is another consideration.


Equipment cost is another consideration. Special machinery has to be used to pull up existing conduit, and plow, trench or bore fiber into the ground. Submarine trenching can be an especially costly, but necessary, project to undertake.

The last thing to consider is how much of a commotion digging is actually going to cause. A municipality planning on providing new infrastructure to a whole town is more than likely going to have to go right through the center of town.

That means pulling up existing infrastructure, like roads and sidewalks, then inevitably having to repair them. Not only is this expensive, but it also leads to road closures that ultimately annoy everyone in the community.
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This issue led to the Dig once practice. When A Municipality works on utility projects, like a water main, they use that opportunity to place broadband structure as well. This way they save money and avoid inconveniencing their community multiple times.

No matter how you cut it, bury it, or string it up fiber projects involve a lot of manpower. These are not jobs just anyone can do. Parts of the process can be contracted, such as the trenching, but the majority involves full-time experience employees.

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