Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

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