I'm fairly sure that Google is paying a lot less than $1250 per customer.
1) it costs a lot less to wire a whole neighbourhood than to wire a single house
2) kansas city was chosen because they could run the fiber on telephone poles rather than digging trenches (and they're not paying anything for access to those poles)
Google has stated that the $300 cost they're charging is the cost of wiring up a home, and I believe thats what they think it will cost. There probably will be overages and complications they don't have in their model, but I think that $300 is fairly close.
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I'm fairly sure that Google is paying a lot less than $1250 per customer.
1) it costs a lot less to wire a whole neighbourhood than to wire a single house
2) kansas city was chosen because they could run the fiber on telephone poles rather than digging trenches (and they're not paying anything for access to those poles)
Google has stated that the $300 cost they're charging is the cost of wiring up a home, and I believe thats what they think it will cost. There probably will be overages and complications they don't have in their model, but I think that $300 is fairly close.