11-17-2012, 03:37 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
1. It takes about two years to build out a cellphone tower; the concrete pour is usually somewhere around the halfway point.
2. The US "broadband" market doesn't do "competition"; the players have all agreed on what price you're going to pay, your "freedom of choice" amounts to "what letterhead the bill has".
3. Point #2 hardly matters when the incumbents won't even bother to deploy service in most places.
Best solution will be community-driven; I keep hoping some subdivision will use their CC&R-granted rights-of-way to deploy fiber, but a wireless mesh network is more likely.
Actually, it takes 12-18 months for a cell tower and almost all of that time is desk work with engineers and permitting. The actual construction can be done in less than 60 days. The bulk of the actual erecting of the tower can be done in less than a week.
Of course in Hawaii, each construction step is probably painfully slow with 4-10 separate inspections required before the next phase can continue, so I'd say two years is probably a "fast track" construction project.