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ArgMeMatey

join:2001-08-09
Milwaukee, WI
·AT&T Midwest

Re: Why can they bury them?

said by dynodb See Profile :

RT's need to be accessed on a pretty regular basis- exactly how would you accomplish this with it buried underground?
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In order to do this, you'd need a very large hole... and then there'd be complaints about the 10 x 10 x 10 foot hole being dug in someone's yard.
Like he said, cost. Many people would give them a long term lease on a 10'x10' patch with an access hatch and landscaping, for a price! Not easy, not convenient, but if it didn't cost so much why wouldn't they avoid the aggravation?

Electric utilities can put entire substations underground if so ordered, but they usually can charge ratepayers instead of having to worry about being profitable.

AT&T also could have run fiber direct to homes, but they decided to try this instead because it's cheaper.

When people say "It's just not practical" they often mean "That would cost too much."
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rec9140
Provoice just DO it

join:2003-07-29
Mulberry, FL

Re: Why can they bury them?

said by ArgMeMatey See Profile :
In order to do this, you'd need a very large hole... and then there'd be complaints about the 10 x 10 x 10 foot hole being dug in someone's yard.
Like he said, cost. Many people would give them a long term lease on a 10'x10' patch with an access hatch and landscaping, for a price! Not easy, not convenient, but if it didn't cost so much why wouldn't they avoid the aggravation?
ATTENTION VZ:

I will give you all the space you want to put in any kind of equipment in my yard you want.

No lease, no strings, just BRING THE FIOS ON!

So long as I get Fios DATA I don't care. Less I have to mow.

Oh... no need to worry there won't be any landscaping around it either unless VZ is doing it an plans on keeping it up. Droughts smoughts.... grass dies, it will grow a again.

Need space for a self supproting tower...NO PROBLEM. Now there will be some strings attached to that one. I need 5-6 spaces at about 50-60 ft. for some antennas and we have a deal.

Just cut the whiners off!
degauss1

join:2001-07-02
Hillsboro, OR
·ViaTalk
·Verizon FIOS
·Comcast
·Axvoice

You hit it right on the head. They had a choice of what technology the deployed. If they had chosen FTTP it would have cost more money - but they would not have had to use these big RT cabinets. The VDSL was cheaper to deploy but requires these huge cabinets.

All that and they are going to have to eventually move to fiber anyway. What a huge waste of money and time not to mention the aggravation to the public.
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