Episode Details

A lot of homes and buildings still do not have fiber to the door. In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur with Jeremy Hanson, custom fiber installation is treated as a service business: houses, commercial buildings, remote properties, and smart homes — plus subcontract work for the carriers trying to hit build deadlines.

Jeremy covers demand, startup costs, and what jobs can pay: basic home drops, business installs, and longer conduit runs. He also walks through how providers like Brightspeed, AT&T, Frontier, and Google Fiber use independent crews, and what it takes to get on that work instead of waiting for random one-off calls.

You’ll learn

• Why custom fiber install is still underserved
• Typical job types and price ranges from the episode
• Why startup costs can stay relatively low
• How subcontracting for telcos creates steadier work
• The myths about saturation and how long the skills take to learn

FAQ Is fiber installation a real business or just a side hustle? It can be either. The money shows up when you treat it like a service company: insurance, reliability, and a way to get repeat work. How do you get consistent fiber jobs? Direct residential and commercial work is one path. Getting approved as a subcontractor for a carrier is the other.

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