Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

Mon Feb 4 15:20:52 UTC 2013

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Baugher" <jason at thebaughers.com>

> What we've seen is that the RBOC typically has a lot of crap copper in the
> ground, in a lot of cases air-core (pre gel-fill) that hasn't held up well.
> With the popularity of DSL, they ran out of good pairs to use. As they ran
> out of pairs, they eventually had to put in remote terminals to handle any
> new voice orders. They knew the future was fiber, at least to the node, so
> they had no incentive to build new copper plant, and little incentive to
> maintain the existing plant.

I have been saying, out loud, in public places, for at least 15 years, that
Verizon's *real* incentive in doing FiOS was to clean up after 3 decades
of GTE doing cut-to-clear rather than fixing actual problems in their
copper OSP...

Cheers,
-- jra
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