Hello!
I live in a village (comes under western ghats range) and my village is around 5KM away from the town where BSNL FTTH center is located. No other FTTH operators are available here except the BSNL franchise (LCO). The FTTH network is expanding and currently the nearest connection is at 3KM away from our village. We, in our village are interested to bring FTTH connection to our village but the franchise says that the cable would cost around 13,000 per KM (nearly 40,000 to bring it to village) and customers have to bear the cost of the cable. Village is not so densely populated (houses are 300m apart on an average) hence the cost of the mere cabling for around 10 connections would be highly expensive (excluding the ONT and modem charges).
However we are thinking of solving this issue with a different plan. Any leads on this would be highly appreciated. The plan is mentioned below:
There was BSNL telephone exchange in our village but it got shut down two years ago because of lack of landline connections (People in our village had surrendered their landline connections due to poor quality of service by BSNL). There will be an underground OFC laid to our village's telephone exchange (which is shut down now) from the town's BSNL telephone exchange where FTTH is based of. Now this underground OFC is unused as the village telephone exchange is decommissioned.
Can't we make use of this un-used existing underground OFC of BSNL so that we can avoid the cost of cabling from town to our village? If we get FTTH through this underground cable till the decommissioned telephone exchange point in our village, we can easily extend cables from that point and connect our homes which are within 500m radius from the decommissioned telephone exchange.
Can this be realized?
Thanks in advance!
I live in a village (comes under western ghats range) and my village is around 5KM away from the town where BSNL FTTH center is located. No other FTTH operators are available here except the BSNL franchise (LCO). The FTTH network is expanding and currently the nearest connection is at 3KM away from our village. We, in our village are interested to bring FTTH connection to our village but the franchise says that the cable would cost around 13,000 per KM (nearly 40,000 to bring it to village) and customers have to bear the cost of the cable. Village is not so densely populated (houses are 300m apart on an average) hence the cost of the mere cabling for around 10 connections would be highly expensive (excluding the ONT and modem charges).
However we are thinking of solving this issue with a different plan. Any leads on this would be highly appreciated. The plan is mentioned below:
There was BSNL telephone exchange in our village but it got shut down two years ago because of lack of landline connections (People in our village had surrendered their landline connections due to poor quality of service by BSNL). There will be an underground OFC laid to our village's telephone exchange (which is shut down now) from the town's BSNL telephone exchange where FTTH is based of. Now this underground OFC is unused as the village telephone exchange is decommissioned.
Can't we make use of this un-used existing underground OFC of BSNL so that we can avoid the cost of cabling from town to our village? If we get FTTH through this underground cable till the decommissioned telephone exchange point in our village, we can easily extend cables from that point and connect our homes which are within 500m radius from the decommissioned telephone exchange.
Can this be realized?
Thanks in advance!