Nanotrenching (2"). Their microtrenching (6") is working out well for them. 




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From: "Colin Stanners" <[email protected]> 
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Saturday, February 9, 2019 11:01:45 AM 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Google fiber bailing on Louisville 



>From the article: The tech giant acknowledged problems in Louisville with a 
>new method of digging shallower trenches to speed up the installation times of 
>the fiber optic cable. Google says the problems were "disruptive to residents 
>and caused service issues for our customers." 


Sounds like they tried microtrenching and then discovered its limitations, or 
how little city/construction crews worry about hitting fiber when it's at 
pretty much street level/directly in their work area. 





On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 10:43 AM Chuck McCown < [email protected] > wrote: 






And an unlimited supply of money does not help. Slow and careful on a limited 
budget does work. Many on this list can prove it. 




From: Bill Prince 
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2019 9:38 AM 
To: AFMUG 
Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Google fiber bailing on Louisville 





Yet another confirmation that it's not as easy as it looks. 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/googles-high-speed-internet-pulling-220020962.html
 






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