Well, there are a bunch of spool trucks and stuff with the company's logo around, big loops of new cable hanging from telephone poles all over town, and lots of traffic disruptions while men in bucket vans Do Things, so I'm reasonably sure they genuinely are building something...

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"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

Given how often we have ice/heavy snow/wind storms around here, our electric, phone, and Internet wires SHOULD all be buried... but they are not. I guess they'd need to go quite deep to get below the frost line, and the hassle and expense make the utilities more willing to just constantly put poles and lines back up after heavy weather, but man...

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

As far as the poles, my cynical nature makes me want to bet they're using the "do it cheap so we can increase shareholder profits right now, and when it breaks, it's some other department's loss" method.

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

Even though we routinely get ice and wind storms that bring down said poles, apparently it's still cheaper to restring them up high than to bury them. I don't pretend to understand, but that's the reason I was given when I asked the question.

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