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City staff outline steps to shave weeks off fiber-to-the-home installs while cautioning on risks
Summary
Velocity and staff described a technical and contracting change that could reduce the time from corridor construction to first customer hookup from ~60 days to ~40–45 days by running lateral conduits incrementally; staff warned faster rollout increases coordination, contractor and financing risk and could undermine quality/customer service if rushed.
Velocity and public-works staff presented a focused update on the city’s fiber-to-the-home deployment and proposed incremental construction tactics to shorten the time between right-of-way work and the first in-home connections.
Under the current linear approach, the contractor installs main conduit in the right-of-way, the project team signs it off, then crews run laterals from the road to households and the in-home install occurs—yielding…
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