Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:11 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net> wrote:

> Owen DeLong wrote:
> > > Single mode fiber's usefulness doesn't expire within any funding
> > > horizon applicable to a municipality. Gige service and any other lit
> > > service you can come up with today does.
> > Well, not in the foreseeable future, anyway. I'm sure there was a time when that claim could have been made about 
> > copper. I would not make that claim about copper today (or even 10 years ago).
> Assuming the rodents don't eat your fiber.
>
> Miles Fidelman

Most burried fiber is pretty rodent resistant these days.

Owen