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Well - I used to work for the Telco and had a hand in engineering most of the early trials and a wider activity in the country-wide network. I also have many friends in the industry...and in general people are kind and well disposed to help.
You must be in the rural areas of Great Brittain... this would never fly in most U.S. communities...
"Community Outreach" here in the U.S. often refers to how far you have to reach to slap your neighbor. Actually sharing and cooperating for the benefit of all is foreign here now due to the "It's all mine, the heck with you!" mentality we seemed to have learned from our corporate culture.
If you're caught in a manhole here without a permit or city escort, you will either be fined heavily or jailed, depending on whether they think they can pin you a terrorist or not.
"Land Of The Free" my regulated, RIAA/MPAA/Patent/Corporate controlled rear.
If you're caught in a manhole here without a permit or city escort, you will either be fined heavily or jailed, depending on whether they think they can pin you a terrorist or not.
"Land Of The Free" my regulated, RIAA/MPAA/Patent/Corporate controlled rear.
Societies and cultures are very different indeed and some are more relaxed that others - in my farming community the ethos is definitely JDI or with a little more urgency JFDI 
Indeed I am in 'the boonies' of the UK, but you know what, I hear a lot of interesting stories and unusual solutions coming out of the backwaters of the USA too - wherever there is a will there is a way
Depends where you are - I find rural USA very similar to rural UK - and farming communities are just used to being self sufficient. Thumb sucking farmers just don't survive, and neither do the loners. it is all about community!
This sounds amazing. My business has fiber running along its rear property line, but it's frontage is to an industrial park that lacks fiber. The carrier's sales rep (as if I'm supposed to believe such) related that fiber was scheduled to be implemented first quarter 2012, when we were moving in last quarter 2011. No, it hasn't happened.
Your anecdote is eye-opening, but where would I find more about DIY fiber? Thanks.
Your anecdote is eye-opening, but where would I find more about DIY fiber? Thanks.
Depends where you are living - many countries have 'self help groups' and societies dedicated to getting a fix asap. Try searching the web under FTTH, community broadband +++
I read with Dismay at the broadband speeds acheived here. here in South Africa you are lucky if you can get 10Mbs, nevermind 40 or 100!! Myself, I have a 4Mbs ADSL line at home. Our incumbant provider has basicly zero competition. We are still rolling twisted pair copper to the home, nevermind fibre! Recenlty a upsurge of Mobile Data has been exprerienced here, but with high latency and spotty connectivity its not a real compeititor to a fixed line.
It would be great if i had the oppertunity to lay my own fibre cabling, but alas the incumbant had made sure this wont happen!
It would be great if i had the oppertunity to lay my own fibre cabling, but alas the incumbant had made sure this wont happen!
With only one supplier you are more or less dead in the water...and with broadband at thoes speeds RSA will not be joining the 21st Century any time soon. Best bet is to form your own society/group/company and go rattle some political cages!
Or as I would say: there is nothing sacred or secret here, there really isn't, and it aint rocket science !
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