Pulling Up the Plow - Burying Fiber to the Tower - RAF Wireless Last Mile Solutions that Work!

While approaching a "bore", the Ditch Witch plow is stopped & raised to drop the cable feed. (Notice the hammer to release feeder) 4-15-09

Better Cable Systems is in the process of burying 24 strands of fiber optic cable to a tower used by RAF Wireless to connect rural residents of Mecklenburg County VA with twice DSL speeds through the air!

The current link to the fiber optic network of Mid-Atlantic Broadband is made via a 17 mile fiber to microwave radio link engineered by RAF Wireless.

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[windoes98se]

, all the rural aerias are geting fiber- optics and the all the urban aerias are stuck with dsl and cabel tc company internet

[Rafmanne]

Nope, working in fiber & wireless, I can tell you that ALL rural areas are NOT getting fiber. This connection took 2 years of requests before it was funded. At $40-60 per foot, 5 miles costs ALOT of money to bury the fiber.

[Jemalacane]

@windoes98se

You have cable and DSL whereas rural people have only satellite and wireless.

So stop complaining!

[ayelvington]

My apartment building in Arlington, VA had fiber to every apartment. I didn't take it since Verizon would not provide a service level agreement and pumped too much other crap (phone, video, etc) down my throat. Verizon has great engineers, but lousy marketing and sales.

[windoes98se]

wow,50$ per foot, thats alot,