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echo: coffee_klatsch
to: TOM WALKER
from: Roy Witt
date: 2008-05-18 10:33:56
subject: Hello

16 May 08 07:38, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:


 RW>> Either Time Warner or Pacbell used that system to provide telephone
 RW>> and cable service. Whoever it was had to finish it by running fiber
 RW>> optic cable from their boxes to my house. Starting and then
 RW>> abandoning the project was stupid. I wonder if they got their money
 RW>> back from the eventual people who did use it.

 TW> It must have been Pac Bell as Time Warner uses an RF system and Coax
 TW> Cable for distribution.

Right. I hadn't taken that into consideration.

 TW> And Pac Bell, Now AT&T, is running some Fiber to remote boxes in
 TW> their expansion of their DSL service to areas beyond the 18 Kilo Foot
 TW> limit from the local switching station.

I didn't have that problem, as the Mira Mesa PacBell station on Mira Mesa
Blvd was only a few blocks from my house.

                R\%/itt



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