Does the fiber go onto existing poles? How is that paid for?
Yes. Make-ready is the cost of making poles ready for accepting fiber. In most cases, this could mean replacing poles, or just moving things around to make room for the fiber. There is a great deal of experience in this in New England and the middle-Atlantic states. Based on this experience, a conservative budgetary number of approximately $250 per pole has been included in the business model. In practice, it will probably be somewhat less than this.
