[Bloat] 22 seconds til bloat on gfiber?

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 27/10/16 21:48, Aaron Wood wrote:

> That sounds like it was in the right ballpark.  Trenching is so
> expensive, only doing it every couple decades sounds like a reasonable
> plan (even better if you trench conduit that you can run replaceable
> cables in (which is what AT&T did when they took U-Verse into the Santa
> Cruz mountains).

Yes, except that in the years leading up to 2000/2001 everyone had the
attitude "build it and they will come", meaning that there was a race
for everyone to get their own fiber into the ground which actually drove
the cost up rather than down, due to a lack of capacity in the
contracting sector, and also because lots of governments and local
authorities saw this stqggering peak in network construction activity as
an opportunity to make lots of money from rights of way.