Re:1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
by lutorm on Saturday June 11, 2011 @11:57AM
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The problem seems to be that no one thought ahead when they built the streets in the US. Back in Sweden, it's all underground. You won't find anything less than main HV transmission lines above ground. I don't know how they did it, but based on the lack of ever digging up the streets in the neighborhoods I lived in, they must have put in conduits when they build the streets. Why they don't do the same in the US baffles me. It makes absolutely no sense.
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Re:1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
by xxpor on Saturday June 11, 2011 @01:57PM
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When they build new development here (outside of inner cities), they generally do put it underground.
> It makes absolutely no sense.
The US was first. Everyone else had the experience in the US to learn from.
New areas in the US do use underground conduits, but most cities in the US are pretty old.
most cities in the US are pretty old.
That's a joke, right? Every place I've lived in the U.S. (which granted is not that many) was built much later than most European cities, yet there are still overhead wires strung all over the place.
Not the city, the installation of electrical service.