I was also fairly recently put in charge of creating some ArcIMS web sites at work. A pretty good online resource I've used to get up to speed on GIS is the ESRI virtual campus at http://campus.esri.com/ They have some free courses where you can learn the basics of GIS and some reasonably priced ~$100 more advanced courses. I was fairly suprized at how good they were.
Before you try to negotiate anything, you'll need to learn a lot about telcos function. Unless the company laying the fiber is also an ISP, most likely all they'd be willing/able to offer you is a point-to-point connection from your house to wherever the fiber is headed to. It will then be up to you to somehow connect your line to an ISP (this may be something else you could negotiate to happen as well). That still leaves you in need of internet bandwidth however, which can be pretty pricey. All this being said, your best solution may be to negotiate royalites and buy some bandwidth with that, foregoing all the hassle.
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...listed as work experience for a network administration position. Unfortunately none of his other past jobs were any more appropriate either.
I was also fairly recently put in charge of creating some ArcIMS web sites at work. A pretty good online resource I've used to get up to speed on GIS is the ESRI virtual campus at http://campus.esri.com/ They have some free courses where you can learn the basics of GIS and some reasonably priced ~$100 more advanced courses. I was fairly suprized at how good they were.
Before you try to negotiate anything, you'll need to learn a lot about telcos function. Unless the company laying the fiber is also an ISP, most likely all they'd be willing/able to offer you is a point-to-point connection from your house to wherever the fiber is headed to. It will then be up to you to somehow connect your line to an ISP (this may be something else you could negotiate to happen as well). That still leaves you in need of internet bandwidth however, which can be pretty pricey. All this being said, your best solution may be to negotiate royalites and buy some bandwidth with that, foregoing all the hassle.