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I sure hope they don't need to open up roads(lane closures) to pull the fiber. Traffic is already agonizing, closures would make the commuting nightmare even wo
by tunap 8y ago
I sure hope they don't need to open up roads(lane closures) to pull the fiber. Traffic is already agonizing, closures would make the commuting nightmare even worse for cars, buses & bikes alike.
- kinsomo 8y agoHopefully they're laying conduit with new road construction. I read somewhere that there are proposals to mandate that (can't remember if it was state or federal level). Edit: seems like it's both: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/nationwide-fiber-proposed-law-could-add-broadband-to-road-projects/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/natio... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/fed-up-us-cities-try-to-build-better-broadband/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/fed-u... https://www.csg.org/pubs/capitolideas/enews/cs41_1.aspx https://www.csg.org/pubs/capitolideas/enews/cs41_1.aspx https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/bills/sb1402s.htm https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/2r/bills/sb1402s.htm
- namibj 8y agoAFAIK in Germany you are required to allow others to lay stuff in the hole if you dig the street up. So if fiber is not placed in there, that means no one is willing to pay for just the fiber, which is only a little part of the cost of doing full FTTH. Oh well, if the distance was more than the 5 or so meters recently in the neighborhood, I might have considered just placing an empty pipe with fan-out/splice boxes at the ends into the hole. But for just 5m it's hardly worth the effort.