Hi Wonk,
Your question inspires about a three or four different, yet related, discussions. If you include the residential component, add another two.
For starters, it has to do with the type, age and availability of cable facilities in any given development. There may be none at all, to start with. Or, based on a developer's inaccurate projections, as often happens, the carrier finds themselves short on cable way before they anticipated. Where is the carrier expected to deliver their cables within a structure? What if there is more than one carrier?
What kinds of provisions has the landlord made, and in the case of new developments, was the landlord compliant with new easement laws? What are the costs associated with pulling new cable where exhaust has occurred (of either type, copper or fiber) from the closest central office or controlled environmental vault (CEV)? Will the services in a given area be satisfied by copper? By fiber? Is the carrier tariffed to provide all services (e.g., such as DSL) over non-copper-based facilities, where the make and model of a fiber mux has not been specifically approved under the tariff? What are the anti-competitive and other legal implications of allowing one carrier to place their cables in a certain location within a building but not another?
The next set of considerations has to do with grandfathered points of entry in older buildings. What is the landlord of a newer buildings expected to provide in the way of a "single" minimal point of entry, or MPOE.
Was the older building at one time designated as a single tenant structure, or was it always multi-tenant? How about newer buildings that only recently went to multi-tenant, but where the MPOE was situated in the primary tenant's facilities? Such as in the case where it is situated in their data center, fed directly by steel conduits from the basement cable vault?
I'll be glad to go into these various commercial scenarios in more length along with the residential situations that arise (where high rise apartment buildings spring up out of the blue next to commercial districts in spaces that were previously vacant lots or fields), and I gladly welcome input from The Stock Fairy and others who care to join in. But it's time for a bit of shut eye at this point. Tomorrow.
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