On 2010-09-13 10:56, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
On Monday 13 September 2010 06:40:05 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The street is way more expensive, you have to put pipes under the pavement, and cover it with concrete. Get permission from the authorities, put the street out of service for a week or a month.
Oh no, never seen anybody closed a street for a month especially to lay an Internet cable. :-)
I have. Several times :-) First they dig up the street. The start placing the tubes. Then they discover they can not cross certain place, because there is a water pipe, or gas, or "something" that nobody knows what it is. So they have to wait. That's just a possible scenario of many. Or just after they close the hole, somebody finds out that it would be a good time to put gas piping, so they open the street up again. Or repair the sewage. Or worse, the machinery breaks something from some other company: the water piping breaks, because it is half a century old. The water gets with force inside the new telco piping and gets to the hole in the pavement where the equipment is and ruins it all, putting the district out of service. Or the digging machinery breaks the entire fiber optic loop from the competing company and puts an entire city out of telephone service... Just dream away, it has already happened somewhere. >:-P
They usually either use existing collectors
For that they need permission from the owner of those conduits, who is going to charge. Perhaps a lot. Here.
or stretch the cables over air from one building to another, which is even cheaper.
And forbidden here. People could do it on their own, till somebody complains and the police investigates. A business can not do it, they risk hefty fines. What you describe that happens in your city is very peculiar, very different from what happens on many other places. For you it is the obvious thing to do, it is familiar, but not for us. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))