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  From: John Edwards <isplist@pinnacle.net.au>
  To  : George Patterson <george@laopdr.com>
  Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 09:29:55 +1030

Re: Broadband options in SA (was Re: ADSL talk suggestion)

George Patterson wrote:

> > carrier-related laws for this). Would you really rather have your street
> > and/or front lawn dug up 5 times by 5 different carriers, or have some extra
> > cables overhead. Which would be uglier?
> >
> 
> Are you talking about in the short term or long term???
> 

In the long term, ETSA hopes to underground all cables anyway, so I
guess we're talking short-to-medium term.

> I'd rather have the lawn ripped up 5 times as it should only need to be done once
> 
> per carrier... Six months afterwards down the track, are you going to notice the difference.

One street where friends lived had a gas line replaced, which involved
wrecking a number of driveways and digging up neat lawns. They got it
wrong, and dug it up again a few months later. Once proud homeowners on
that side of the street let their gardens go wild and their lawns fill
with weeds because there was no point maintaining them anymore. I'd
consider that ugly.

John Edwards

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