No. I self financed. There was another township that did go to the voters near me. One passed and another failed.
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It's a big deal to damage someone elses infrastructure, can result in bills and lawsuit to reclaim losses. If the pole owner notices, they may do something (or just ignore it). What you don't want is them tearing down your stuff without notice.
I might have to build towers at both ends to run in a licensed range, eg: 11Ghz, and even there there's not good access. So I might still have to pay 20-60k to get access on top of the 5-10k for radios and registration of the licensed link. That easily builds 1-1.5 miles of fiber, and since I was just over 2 miles away from it, it became easier to just do that and have something reliable.
I'm also in a position to offer much higher speeds when I need to upgrade. Projections put that out after month 60 when I need more bandwidth.
It's a great little drill, but I've also spent a fair amount on parts and pieces to keep it running. Nothing too expensive (except the rubber tracks, those are around $500 to replace, did one in 2019 and the other in 2020). I purchased a new locate wand as well, which was over 5k which works better with the beacon than the older one.
If you need to go a short distance it's a good tool, small enough i can move it with a F250.
I'm a fan of one touch make ready rules, but when you get to rural areas many of the poles are old, and to get the 18' clearance on a road span requires moving everyone else up, which may mean a new pole.
Even with that they need fiber to their towers to provide the speeds necessary
I can use other strands or run them in the second conduit we installed.
Lightspeed - I forget who bought them maybe MEC.
Try them
I won't disclose what the usage is but with everyone live there is tons of headroom. The redundant carrier and construction is underway as well.
Being a telephone company made it easier to permit and working with the groups to permit it became possible.