screavic
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join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
 ·Verizon Wireless B..
·Alltel Axess
| Little too late
This is coming a little too late considering most major freeway's are already being worked on...
I know there are some out there that aren't but alot are, they are not going to "move back" on the freeway and install conduit if they are 5 miles from being completed. |
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cableties
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join:2005-01-27
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Yep. I always wondered why the utilities companies would dig up the freshly paved roads. It's not like the road work wasn't on the books for years. It's almost like the utility folks should be fined for any tear-up AFTER. Oh, did I type that? 
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screavic
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join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
·Verizon Wireless B..
·Alltel Axess
| Our water company does BORING only, I know it's expensive, but it saves the roads which in turn in the long run saves our tax dollars. Maybe the more companies would bore under the roads the more "startups" would come along which in turn would encourage competition and then make it cheaper  |
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squirrel83
cheers
join:2005-05-02
Missoula, MT | belive it when i see it !
awesome now there in a concept! This should help rural internet grow greatly not to mention the infrastructure. Ahh the possibilities competition in some markets would grow immensely |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to screavic
Re: Little too late
said by screavic  :This is coming a little too late considering most major freeway's are already being worked on... roads ALWAYS need repair. Hell I remember living in Illinois where it seems the same stretch of roads were ALWAYS being repaired. Well technically I never saw any work being done. Just one guy in a ditch and 4 others looking at him and another guy in com construction vehicle smoking a cigarette. |
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screavic
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join:2006-08-11
Paron, AR
·Verizon Wireless B..
·Alltel Axess
| I know they need repairs all the time, they just redid one of our worst freeways here and it's already needs some repairs no major ones that require an "overhaul" yet though. I guess these don't matter anyways since companies like Level 3 already have fiber running down them according to their maps.
My luck they would be repairing the road and then cut the fiber and never knew it |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to squirrel83
Re: belive it when i see it !
It would be cool, wouldn't it. |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28 | Next up...
the Broadband Conduit Tax Act. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | reply to squirrel83
Re: belive it when i see it !
One problem with the idea is many of the roads (especially "last mile") are state or local. Unless the federal government is willing to provide funding to the states this just sound like another unfunded mandate. |
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Bit
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join:2009-02-19
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 ·VOIPo
 ·Cox HSI
| Makes sense to me, installing conduit
It's not like they're laying the actual fiber, just making it easier to install it later. It isn't extraordinarily expensive and nothing quite as frustrating as having a new highway torn up and funneling traffic to 1 lane for 3 months.
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Bit
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join:2009-02-19
00000 | reply to mod_wastrel
Re: Next up...
You mean the borrow from the Chinese to pay for the broadband conduit act. |
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IPTVdave
join:2007-12-26
Roseville, CA
 ·SureWest Internet
| any authorized communications provider?
"any authorized communications provider"
Scarry. Our tax dollars, Big brothers conduit. Who's gets to be authorized? What hoops do you have to go through. Can the local isp but fiber in it? Or is it free conduit for Ma Bell? LOOP HOLE alert!
I like the 'idea' it makes sence. Just seems fishy. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to Bit
Re: Makes sense to me, installing conduit
said by Bit :It's not like they're laying the actual fiber, just making it easier to install it later. It isn't extraordinarily expensive and nothing quite as frustrating as having a new highway torn up and funneling traffic to 1 lane for 3 months. No shit this actually make thing CHEAPER. The idiots above you clearly can't see the BIG picture.
The funny thing is the peolel that bitch about taxes the most usually pay the least. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
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Re: Next up...
said by mod_wastrel :the Broadband Conduit Tax Act. Good, I'd rather have my tax dollars supporting this than ridiculous concepts like abstinence. |
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Bit
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join:2009-02-19
00000 | Or Acorn and Planned Parenthood |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
| said by Bit :Or Acorn and Planned Parenthood Agreed. Thank goodness they are not funded by tax dollars. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to IPTVdave
Re: any authorized communications provider?
I hope ANY ISP can, if not I will not support this. |
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mod_wastrel
join:2008-03-28
·magicjack.com
| reply to Matt
Re: Next up...
Actually, I envision it'll be a poison pill rider on some "think of the children" bill as a tax that an ISP will have to pay if it uses the conduit, which of course will be passed on to customers over and above the price of service instead of being rolled into the cost of doing business. So, even better right?  |
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rcdailey
Dragoonfly
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join:2005-03-29
Rialto, CA | reply to Matt
Yes, some thiings I can give up, but the internet is not one of them. |
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AVonGauss
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join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL
| Intent...
While I think the intent of this bill is generally in the right direction, I'm not sure that it is solving a real problem. My understanding is that laying fiber between cities is "comparatively" cheap to laying fiber or other types of runs inside of the city or county. Besides, isn't most of the rural fiber runs along the highway vs under the highway? For sections of road that need to be crossed occasionally, boring would make more sense. |
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