Subj : Re: fibre experience, anyone?
To   : Ogg
From : n2qfd
Date : Tue Apr 30 2024 13:46:42

 Og> Anyone here have techinal insights and experience about fibre  
 Og> installations?

  Funny, it wasn't the home installation but 3rd and 4th party crews installing the fiber along the country highways that was the problem here. I was working for Tompkins County Highway and the Village of Newfield was getting braodband. It was ugly, like anything that got in the way of the company would end up as a pitchforks and torches sort of event led against the Facebook pages of the Town Officials. So, we had just resurfaced MILES of road in the town and these guys were knifing in the fiber conduits. They had a crawler with a blade and a spindle like a farmer lays in drain tile and were destroying the road surface and the ditch-line at the same time. We hit them with a $20k fine and cease and deists order. They hadn't even filed for work permits in the right of way! Next thing I know I'm told to wave all permitting fees and just make periodic checks on them. They got into it with a County Legislator who were sort of our bosses and once again we were toothless to stop public roadways from being needlessly destroyed. The vaults were all cattywumpus, many full of water. It was just so much bad work that the "owners" were absolved from because it was contractors working for contractors at the ground level. 

  That's all I've got thus far for fiber. Here we've had a virtual monopoly situation with Time Warner not Spectrum being the only cable provider and thus your only option for high speed internet. There's been fiber roll out for the last 5 years but they have been just doing arterial and not so much lateral build-out. They focused on downtown, business, industry, hospital and are just starting to come around the side streets. 

   I'm in the southern tier of NY so can't say what's doing elsewhere. 

  N2QFD

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