[ale] OT: Affordable ADSL for Paulding County?

[Eric Z. Ayers]

Mike Fletcher writes:
 > >>>>> "Dow" == Dow Hurst <dhurst at ksumail.kennesaw.edu> writes:
 > 
 >     Dow> these new subdivisions.  It is amazing how slow BellSouth is
 >     Dow> in reacting to potential markets.  Does anyone know how much
 >     Dow> it costs to build a new CO?  Thousands?  Millions?  Dow
 > 
 >         BellSouth's actions are never amazing if you've worked there
 > (that's one of the reasons why I work somewhere else now :).  Just
 > remember Scott Addams (the Dilbert cartoonist) used to work for
 > PacBell.  Everything that happens in Dilbert has probably at one time
 > or another happened at all of the RBOCs.
 > 
 > 
 >         As for CO cost, I'd guess it's on the order of around half a
 > million (+/- another $250k maybe).  They're not cheap to build
 > (redundant power, facility security, connecting the new facility into
 > the phone network), and the equipment to go in them costs a large
 > chunk of change as well.
 > 

I am sure it is well over a million bucks - probably 2-5 million.
Have you checked out the price of a telephone switch lately?  

-Eric.
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