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  From: Michael Kratz <michael_kratz@hotmail.com>
  To  : <davidn@rebel.net.au>
        < amosf@mrbean.net.au>
        < LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 13:38:04 +1030

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

>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?

It's not that hard if one plans it before the conduits are put in. My 
parents own a hotel in Whyalla, we have new units and a function room on a 
new block across a public road. When we initially dug up the road we put a 
rather large PVC conduit in and then put two large man holes on each side of 
our pipe on our own land. The pipe now holds, alarm cables, network cables, 
telephone cables and a few others. So when we want to run new cables, all we 
do is get a ferret. tie the cables around its waist, stick some food on the 
other end and he covers the distance pretty quick. We have not had any 
problems doing this because we have but in a sufficiently large conduit. PRE 
PLANNING is the issue. But Telstra don't think that way, they do it, if it 
doesn't work, they do it again, and again, till its botched enough that it 
works, just.
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