[139423] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bubba is a 75 year old woman looking to make some extra cash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Thu Apr 7 17:21:24 2011
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 17:20:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D9E0B5D.7050309@mtcc.com>
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Michael Thomas wrote:
> On 04/07/2011 11:54 AM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
>> This is common in the Netherlands too nowadays and other countries too I
>> am sure. Because copper has gone up in price considerably. In the
>> Netherlands especially copper lines along railroad tracks are removed,
>> disabling alert systems with obvious dangerous results.
>
> Say now, that might be one way to force the issue of FTTH.
That won't prevent outages due to cable cuts. I've heard of people
cutting spans of fiber, thinking it was copper, and then throwing by the
wayside once they realized there was nothing in there that a recycler
would pay for.
jms
