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<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:46:05 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Can you bury figure 8 aerial cables?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is there a code against burying figure 8 AERIAL 62.5/125 ?
The story is below other wise I would never do it.
Any tips regarding the steel messenger perhaps? :uhh:

I have been doing volunteer work building a fiber backbone for a horse farm.
I purchased all of the materials and am doing all the work myself.  Outside plant fiber, cat6e---everything.

My challenge is that after we talked , walked out and drew up the plans for the aerial campus fiber and after I bought the MM 62.5/125.  The owner said we could not get phone poles installed or cut back trees.  Fiber cannot be returned or MRA,d.]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-13 20:22:03</pubDate>
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<title>Running our own lines</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Hello, I live less than 100 feet from one of the west coast backbone lines owned by AT&T, with a cell tower located in what is basically my front yard (about 75 feet away). I am interested in seeing if anybody can help me, as Google has eventually stopped coming up with fresh results for me to study.

 Essentially what I found, was that in order to connect to a fiber optic line, there must be a tap of some kind. This is where the cellular tower comes in. AT&T has a policy that states all cellular towers they own must be connected to the backbone through fiber optic lines. This means that there are fiber optic lines run about 75 feet away from me.

 Essentially my plan would be to bury my own 75 feet of lines to connect to the tap in order to earn my place alongside the other millions of people paying AT&T a monthly tribute for internet service. Also, I do not live too far from the suburbs, but just far enough that I may or may not be stuck in the 20th century until I die/move.

TL:DR questions:
1. Would the tower be something that I could consider a viable tap?
2. (main issue) Does anybody have a phone number or email I can use to contact somebody with the ability to possibly arrange my connection to the tap? Or even know somebody that has done something similar that could provide some experienced advice?]]></description>
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<pubDate>2013-05-18 19:19:46</pubDate>
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