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Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 09:51:13 -0400
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:48:02PM -0500, frnkblk () iname com wrote:
One of my takeaways from that article was that burying fiber underground could likely have avoided many/most of these fiber cuts, though I???m not familiar enough with the terrain to know how feasible that is.
I suspect that may not be possible in (parts of) Florida. However, even in places where it's possible, fiber installation is sometimes miserably executed. Like my neighborhood. A couple of years ago, Verizon decided to finally bring FIOS in. They put in the appropriate calls to utility services, who dutifully marked all the existing power/cable/gas/etc. lines and then their contractors (or sub-sub-contractors) showed up. The principle outcome of their efforts quickly became clear, as one Comcast cable line after another was severed. Not a handful, not even dozens: well over a hundred. They managed to cut mine in three places, which was truly impressive. (Thanks for the extended outage, Verizon.) After this had gone on for a month, Comcast caught on and took the expedient route of just rolling a truck every morning. They'd park at the end of the road and just wait for the service calls that they knew were coming. Of course Comcast's lines were not the only victims of this incompetence and negligence. Amusingly, sometimes Verizon had to send its own repair crews for their copper lines. There's a lot more but let me skip to the end result. After inflicting months of outages on everyone, after tearing up lots of lawns, after all of this, many of the fiber conduits that are allegedly underground: aren't. ---rsk
Current thread:
- FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Sean Donelan (May 09)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mike Bolitho (May 11)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mel Beckman (May 11)
- RE: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report frnkblk (May 13)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mike Bolitho (May 13)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Rich Kulawiec (May 14)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report George Metz (May 14)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mark Andrews (May 14)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mike Hammett (May 15)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Brandon Martin (May 15)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Seth Mattinen (May 15)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mel Beckman (May 11)
- Re: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Mike Bolitho (May 11)
- RE: FCC Hurricane Michael after-action report Sean Donelan (May 15)