Solar/Wind Site setup
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LRL - Experienced Member
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Re: Solar/Wind Site setup
I've never heard of it for power, but I've had CELAC carriers use USF money for delivering telecom service where there was none.
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rebelwireless - Experienced Member
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Re: Solar/Wind Site setup
because the power company can charge for poles, which could be $10k each. The power company can't charge for the transformer or the lines if it is a home. They can (and do) charge for those if it's not a home, so you could be $100k into a transformer and lines for say 8 poles plus the $80k for the poles, which might be $180k. It's more like $80k if that power is run to a home. Even less if you poles are shorter.
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Re: Solar/Wind Site setup
I should add that is for declared utilities, not co-ops. Co-ops have different rules, and I'm not sure what they are as far as installation charges.
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Re: Solar/Wind Site setup
LRL wrote:I've never heard of it for power, but I've had CELAC carriers use USF money for delivering telecom service where there was none.
GOD I HATE THE ENTIRE EXISTANCE OF USF!!!!!!!!!
Welfare for Telcos!
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Re: Solar/Wind Site setup
yeah, USF is rediculous. What's worse is when another local wISP is owned by a state legislature member and they have special access to USF :/
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Re: Solar/Wind Site setup
USF comes with strings though. In the last two years our state has given millions in free right-a-ways to the big telcos, but I could have covered all those areas for 300k. ARG!
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Re: Solar/Wind Site setup
There was a FTTH buildout *near* a nearby city. The City itself is plagued by poor DSL and Shoddy Cable service, but there is a 10Gb fiber backbone running basically down city limits and can only be hooked up by to by residences and business outside the city limits. They can get 100Mbps fiber and a 1/2 mile away in the city limits they can get 1.5Mbps DSL. That was something like $4.5Mil I think to build out. That was a combined USF and Obama stimulus deal.
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