Spanish Fork was going to go fiber to the house, but because of cost only went fiber to the node and coax the remainder of the way. However with the way Spanish Fork did the network they could swap out the coax with fiber by just pulling out the coax, and replacing with fiber in the conduits. The senator just hasn't been educated on the way the network has been setup. It was really nice because after the people in Spanish Fork decided to take the broadband issue up themselves instead of waiting on the private sector. The private sector afterwards suddenly decided they should upgrade all of the systems. This included Comcast, and Qwest at the same time. Some coincidence since the former two monopolies in their respective market suddenly had a competitor THE CITY. The people of Spanish Fork are the ones who wanted broadband and when private companies don't listen, projects like what occurred in Spanish Fork happen. The project wasn't done to please investors in which Qwest, and Comcast seem to be too busy doing, and so won't upgrade infrastructure for the broadband that people are asking for.
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:39 -0600, Kyle Waters wrote: > I was at a meeting of a state legislative committee and a state senator > from Spanish Fork said he had seen no advantages of fiber in American > Fork. So I have come to this list to find out if his assessment is > correct or what went wrong in Spanish Fork. Do you know of businesses > or people that moved their because of the fiber? > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
