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Originally Posted by Horizon
....yeah, that sounds like the old cablecos we all use to know and love....!
Must have been a Nynex manager that lived in the village and insisted that his road got "prepared" for cable, even though there would have been zero chance of a small village getting cable tv back then, let alone now. Residential streets should only have been dug up once the "trunk" fibre cable has been passed through the area. There is no point in digging up streets and pavements, until the cable tv network via the main trunk fibre cable is there. What a waste.
My road and the surrounding estate got dug up and cabled about six months after the main fibre cable went through the main road in my area.
What ignitionet is talking about is not a few houses, but many. 90% of the money was already spent in preparing his area, so seems very odd that the work wasn't finished.
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Have a look at the picture I put earlier in this thread. All those properties connected to nothing.
Work in some areas stopped, literally, overnight. It wasn't just one construction crew doing everything ya know, they were working in parallel and were to meet in the middle. The work in individual streets is more time consuming and it would've been crazy not doing that in parallel with the trunk build.
See attachments, all empty ducts apart from core network fibre that runs through some of it down the main road route, and some of those areas aren't connected to anything at all, in the first picture there's duct to properties which goes nowhere else.