municipal broadband

[Bob Bivona <[e-mail]>]

I am doing research on the feasibility of municipal broadband and am trying
to determine approximate costs and would very much appreciate your
assistance. I understand costs would depend on many factors and am trying
to determine very roughly, what minimum costs would be for  fiber and
wireless broadband infrastructure per capita, or for a city of 100,000 of
average area. Chattanooga has a fiber municipal broadband system that cost
$414.5 million and has 55,000 subscribers (I am uncertain what the average
number of users per subscription is) for a cost per subscriber of $7,536.
Does this seem like a reasonable cost average per subscriber to you? I
understand that new wireless technologies exist that would allow cities to
offer similar speeds as fiber for much lower costs. Would you please tell
me if this is correct? Thank you very much.



Bob Bivona