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The fiber isn't salvageable. Google did an "experimental" deployment which turned out to be utter trash. The short summary is they dug tiny little trenches in the road, and filled the gap above the fiber with foam. Vehicles, snow plows, and construction happened, which all happens to fairly efficiently rip the guts of their network out.

That's why Google is leaving: They don't want to redeploy the entire network from scratch.



> That's why Google is leaving: They don't want to redeploy the entire network from scratch.

I don't think the "from scratch" part really matters here when they were a percent or two done at most, and they have to pay to fix the roads anyway.

It's more that they don't want to deploy a network at all.


This is true - I've seen the pictures and it wasn't pretty.

But surely the lead ins to the houses (the fibre in people's front yards) is useful still? That is, after all, the costliest part of a fibre rollout.


On side streets I heard the quality of workmanship dropped even further, from micro-trenches with cabling a few inches below the road surface to cables that were barely covered and eventually becoming tripping hazards.


Possibly Caused by shoddy work by contractors as well - I have heard documented horror stories of contractors cutting the ends off telegraph poles to make emplacing new poles quicker.


/Some/ of the fiber might be salvageable.




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