Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
by Animats on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:03PM
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This has already been done on many long-haul routes. Fiber to the home is tougher. You can lay a tube past all the houses, but connecting to it means putting in an access box, a tube to the house, and somewhere nearby, a concentrator.
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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US
by jandrese on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:17PM
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My grandmother's house got fiber this way in sleepy rural Minnesota. They were digging up and replacing all of the streets in town and laying fiber (including the runs to the home) as they went. It seemed really smart to me.
I have to admit I was pretty surprised to go down into her basement for a jar of homemade pickles and seeing an ONT bolted to the wall. She doesn't even have a computer or cable TV, it was only providing POTS. It's going to be quite the perk for whomever moves in after she dies though.