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  From: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Tim Fairchild <amosf@mrbean.net.au>
        <LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 23:37:23 +1030

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

> Logic escapes me (geez, not again!). You'll have to tell us what sort of
> trenches they have down there, they're certainly different to the ones up
> here. Are they open trenches that allow you to lay other service and then
> cover again or some sort of open pvc tubing that other service could be
> threaded through

I assume it's no big deal to pull new services through an existing
underground duct.  Electricians have been doing that for almost a century in
the walls of houses, and I suppose we must have improved on the technology
since then.  Why?  Am I wrong?  Are you telling me that trenches are the
sorts of things you can only fill when you build them?

> Anyway, I don't understand the rent thing...

It's what one does when the government says, "other utilities are
underground in this area, so you do the same," yet you don't want to pay the
up-front expense of putting in your own trench.  Simple enough concept.

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