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Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N... by AngryData on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:23AM (#40112369)
Im in a rural area and couldn't even get DSL at any point, best available was a fixed wireless LTE connection until about 6 months ago, and this is a low swampy area with tons of tall trees and the network was consistently overloaded, so it was garbage service.

Finally though there was a cooperative formed with the local power company and they hung fiber up on the power poles and brought drops down right into the home and now we get 1 gig for less than the wireless cost and completely sidestepped the garbage local telecom company who had been promising internet and not delivering for near two decades. And it didn't take them long at all to string it up down all the roads around here and then drops to peoples homes.

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Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N... by gosub100 on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:33AM (#40112998)
That's interesting to me. I had been previously told that fiber couldn't be hung on poles because the movement on the line breaks the glass fibers.
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Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N... by denton-scratch on Monday April 22, 2024 @08:00AM (#40113497)
I think you were told nonsense. Glass fibre doesn't break and shatter; it's flexible. It does have a minimum bend radius (depending on the type of fibre); but that's to do with maintaining total internal refraction, and can be fixed by straightening out the fibre again.
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Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N... by gosub100 on Monday April 22, 2024 @12:06PM (#40115669)
I know fibers are flexible, I meant prolonged movement from the wind or thermals.
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Re:Anti-municipal broadband budget amendment gets nixed in N... by rascul on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:28AM (#40114721)
Similar story for me in rural Mississippi. AT&T laid fiber years ago with government money but never lit it up. We were able to get 3mbps DSL though which was almost not worth it. Power company coop spun out a ISP and started hanging fiber from the power poles and now I get gigabit fiber for less than I was paying AT&T when I lived in town.
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