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8valvegrowl t1_j03a1l6 wrote

I seem to recall I paid about 9-10K for 100 yards from utility pole to meter/house site with trenching and a comm conduit installed simultaneously (which was good, because Comcast came up my road a year later and I already had the conduit to the pole). This was in 2019.

So, at least 5X my cost is probably ballpark, especially if you have to use poles for some/all of the span.

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1DollarOr1Million t1_j03lo76 wrote

Running coax cable and/or fiber at the same time is so clutch if one can afford it. Saves trenching twice.

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Abbot_of_Cucany t1_j0k2lp6 wrote

Absolutely. If you're paying to dig a trench anyway, the extra cost for a 2" conduit is pretty small. And run a pull-string (or 2) through the conduit so that when it's time to install the fiber, it can just be pulled through. The same conduit can be used for fiber, phone, coax, or other low-voltage services as long as it's big enough.

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