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[Marghanita da Cruz]

David Boxall wrote:
> On 12/04/2011 9:32 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> ...
>> PS for the record, I think underground fibre optic cable (or
>> fibre optic cable - of whatever hue) to every home is wacko.
> We'll just have to agree to disagree on that one. I reckon anything less 
> than underground fibre, wherever there's currently underground copper, 
> is a waste of money. It's typical of today's short-term political 
> thinking: don't do anything that won't deliver results before the next 
> election.
> 

For one, they are talking about fibre, where there is not 
currently copper and secondly, anecdotally at least, not all 
the copper (or fibre) in/on the ground, is still/ever was in 
use.

>> Even Energy Australia, who are currently digging up our
>> streets (not footpaths) to lay conduits, run aerial cables
>> to homes. I doubt there is any plan to put the cables to the home
>> underground as they recently upgraded them to Aluminium "to make them
>> more robust" against the trees.
> The PMG abandoned overhead cabling for good reasons.
> 


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