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Another good example of "smart engineering can't solve every problems".

• sudosteph 8y ago
  This is even worse in a way. They specifically caused these problems because they believed their engineers were so smart that they could rely on their novel microtrenching technique to deploy the fiber for a fraction of the cost of the competitors. I just don't understand why they didn't spend more time testing it on their own resources before rolling out to actual customers in a major metro area. We've all seen potholes, roots coming through streets and sidewalks. Just crazy to think they thought this was ready to be deployed at scale...
• dragonwriter 8y ago
  It actually seems like the problem was exactly that smart engineering wasn't applied; microtrenching was basically testing expensive (thouhh cheaper than alternatives, if it worked) infrastructure ideas in production without prior testing in sufficiently realistic conditions; it appears to have been an abject failure that left GF in a shutdown or start over position.