Starting a Local Fibre Co-Op?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 5, 2005 @03:30PM from the ye-ole-last-mile-problem dept.

swordsaintzero wonders: "I have seen several articles mentioning local co-ops implementing fiber. I am moving to a smaller town to take a position as a Solaris Administrator for a large university. After calling around, I found out the fastest bandwidth package available is half the speed of my previous package. For all of you Slashdot readers, who have worked on getting fibre implemented for your town through a co-op, what was involved in presenting it to the city government? What would be the best way to get the ball rolling on getting fiber for home use implemented?"

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Re:Move to a bigger city... by EvilMagnus · 2005-07-05 17:02 · Score: 3, Interesting

My parent's home town in the UK (pop. 60,000) has fiber to the premises. They have a nice little drop box on the wall of their house where the demarc is. It was put in about six years ago, for free, by a private cable company.

It's kinda weird to see a set-top box with a fiber line running to it.

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