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[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> > > > about it.  Around here it's the electricity companies promoting
> > > > fibre,
> > > I didn't know you could use fibre to carry electricity.  ;-)
> > Yes, they are using the new kind with the holes.
>
> It is primarily a legal/cost issue.  Power companies have the
> right-of-ways to install the cable (and the labor force).

So do the telcos, but I think they saw fibre as being too expensive
whereas the existing copper could be reused for VDSL at very little
cost.


/Per


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Per Jessen, Zürich (21.2°C)

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