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Google loves doing stuff like this. At my last company, before we sold it, I had to reverify our Google Business page about once a week because it would constantly just remove the …

It’s this way because of how regulated everything is. You have to jump through hoops to get permission to do anything here in the U.S. in other countries you just do it.

How do you plan for these things to get into buildings? Sewer, water, and power utilities are anywhere from 20’ deep to 2’ deep, so unless you want these robots aimlessly digging i…

To be fair, microtrenching sucks. It’s extremely difficult to dig around lines that have even micro trenched without damaging them. Our “micro trenches” are still 16” deep, but we …

Well you need conduit to run fiber generally; so you would be doing both.

Are you in Hartford County, MD by chance?

Generally looking at around $200,000 for one of those. They work great in certain areas. If you’re doing urban work like we are they’re not so great because there’s a utility every…

The problem with this is you can name a “kickback” by anything else, like “rent”, and that makes it legal.

I'd love to know where you can get a fiber circuit for $500/m. (And even if you can, then you probably can't compete with whoever's selling you that circuit anyway.) When we starte…

We're a profitable company doing over a quarter million a year ATM. We aren't running fiber on a whim.

I’m already well aware there’s fiber on poles here. The difference is, their network isn’t built to support FTTH, it’s built to support a few larger enterprises that are willing to…

I think the key difference is that infrastructure is more of a long term investment. We can return 10x’s but it’ll likely take a little longer than a software company would. Howeve…

Both. Our latency is better than cable in most cases.

That it is.

Fixed the grammar :p

You would think that. Unfortunately many/most people care more about their precious roads than they do about infrastructure.

So Mimosa, one of the hardware vendors we use, does actually have this built-in to their firmware. The issue is, from what I've seen, is that it hops around too much. It also moves…

This is why we're starting to run fiber. 5G and tree's don't mix well.

Understanding an algorithm or concept is not a world-class talent.

Hence.. the "not everyone can" bit still applies.. but not everyone will. So that's not even relevant.

Given enough time and training, anyone who puts their all into learning it, is capable of understanding that. It may take them 20 years to learn math from the ground up, but they c…

You're completely missing the point. Being an asshole is a choice. My point is that anyone can be a consultant that puts their all into it. Being an asshole isn't in your DNA. A Dr…

Personalities are built; you're not born an introvert. Anyone can be built into a leader; go join the Marine Corps if you don't believe me.