Or when carriers went bankrupt lit bundles of transatlantic cable that
cost 800 million ton install would sell for 10-20 million during
restructuring

it would still cost 800 million to put a new one in so you were getting
the same thing for 1/40th the price

Martin H. Eastburn wrote:
For one thing, dark fiber is leased and bought by many companies that
have divisions or sections - in other parts of town or state or nation.

IEEE had a nice story of a very thoughtful and much lower cost of
bandwidth.

When MCI-Worldcom and others were going crazy - buying and installing
(and not paying)
for stuff all over the country - a lot of fiber was laid that was never
used - e.g. no laser lit - therefore dark.

Simple as that. Sometimes it is spare bundles or spare fibers.

Martin

Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder



Dave Balderstone wrote:

In article , Joe Barta
wrote:


If you think about it, Google has positioned itself into an
interesting position. Millions of people think Google Groups and
USENET are one in the same... right out of the AOL or MS playbook.



And now...

http://news.com.com/Google+wants+dark+fiber/2100-1034_3-5537392.html


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