Thanks to Bill Coleman for sharing the following resource. It’s only 5 pages long, but it includes a lot of the nuts and bolts that you need to consider when thinking about deploying Fiber to the Home. Here’s a high level look at what they discuss. The report fleshed out each step…

Community and Local Government Leadership & Support

• Develop a clear broadband plan
• Ensure commitment of community stakeholders, including local government personnel
• Define an expeditious process for on-going permitting and inspections
• Permit innovative construction techniques
• Build out requirements have been proven counterproductive

Use of Existing Infrastructure

• Publish data about existing infrastructure
• Make all rights of way available on clearly defined reasonable terms through a rapid approval process
• Make poles available on clearly defined reasonable terms through a rapid approval process
• Ensure make-ready work s performed expeditiously
• Coordinate all pole maintenance and make-ready work with the new provider to save costs
• Allow prospective attachers to perform all make-ready work themselves through contractors

Proactively Improving Existing Infradtructure

• Provide space on all poles for new attachers
• Install ubiquitous finer conduit
• Use building codes and community development plans to drive their deployments