 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| 2 years ago they installed underground electric service here ... before that, the whole neighborhood was power poles and the usual aerial lines.
They didn't have to dig up anyone's yards. In fact there was very little digging. They had these machines that pushed conduit and cables through the ground and they had small access points where they placed green (I'm guessing transformers) on the ground every so many hundreds of feet or yards or etc.
I don't see why a fiber deployment would be any different in an existing neighborhood. You don't dig up streets. You wouldn't be trenching everyone's yards and driveways. I'm sure it's more expensive then attaching to poles, but it's got to be much, MUCH cheaper then trenching and digging.
Since they did that, the power has not failed here, even in severe weather, except one morning when a small tornado took out a substation and major transmission lines.... before that, every time there was severe weather, power would fail and repairs would have to be made.... so reliabilty has increased, and they are saving on repair work. The same thing would apply to a FTTH install as well. No more coming out and repairing lines and cables torn up by wind and ice. Win/Win.--
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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| I work for a small telephone company and we just completed replacing all of our copper with fiber it is way more expensive to do directional boring then doing just plowing (trenching) we would did as much as possible with the plow to save money it was costing us as much as $30,000 - $45,000 to plow and $16 a foot to bore. |
