Survey Instructions and FAQ
How is the survey structured?
This survey will ask you to consider a recent fiber deployment and answer questions about that project, such as construction metrics for the Access Network (Deployment Costs) and Customer Drops (Drop Costs).
What does this survey consider to be a deployment project?
For this survey, a project refers to any last-mile deployment, from a small neighborhood edge-out to a full city expansion. The important thing is that you have metrics that are specific to that deployment. We’re most interested in projects that are typical for your firm. If you wish to provide more examples, you can take the survey multiple times, once for each project.
Note this excludes middle mile build-outs/costs, which NTIA defines as infrastructure that aggregates large quantities of traffic for carriage between networks and does not typically reach the end user’s location.
What do I need to have prepared before taking the survey?
Click here to view a PDF that contains all the information you should prepare.
Can I enter additional submissions for multiple projects?
If you’d like to provide responses for multiple projects, please reopen the survey link to retake the survey with new cost data. We greatly appreciate the effort to provide multiple entries.
Who should I contact with additional questions?
Please reach out to Deborah Kish at dkish@fiberbroadband.org with any questions.