<story><title>Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt</title><url>http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_31941127/public-support-high-boulder-moves-fund-citywide-fiber?source=mostpopular</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>makerofspoons</author><text>I went to school at the University of Colorado Boulder. Something this article doesn&amp;#x27;t mention is that the city already has over 100 miles of fiber laid that isn&amp;#x27;t currently being lit up: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.govtech.com&amp;#x2F;dc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;Boulder-Colo-To-Light-Up-Fiber-Optic-Network.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.govtech.com&amp;#x2F;dc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;Boulder-Colo-To-Light-Up-...&lt;/a&gt;. There were several groups of students looking to build companies to utilize this existing infrastructure, as well as business interests outside the city, but it just never went anywhere. I hope that it will see use soon, I was very envious of my friends that would commute in from nearby Longmont that could use their awesome municipal ISP.</text></comment>
<story><title>Boulder moves to fund citywide fiber buildout through debt</title><url>http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_31941127/public-support-high-boulder-moves-fund-citywide-fiber?source=mostpopular</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rayiner</author><text>Some back of the napkin math. $140 million for 40,000 households in Boulder = $3,500 per household. If 50% of people subscribe (typical for municipal broadband), that&amp;#x27;s $7,000 per subscribing household, or higher than Charter&amp;#x27;s market cap per subscriber.&lt;p&gt;A quarter of the population of the city is below the poverty line. If the intent is to offer them subsidized broadband, let&amp;#x27;s assume we get no capital recovery from those households. That brings the cost to $4,666 per household, or $9,300 per subscribing household.&lt;p&gt;This is high, but not out of the ballpark. Verizon spent about $3,500 on average for each paying subscriber for FiOS. Chattanooga&amp;#x27;s system was about $5,500 per household.</text></comment>