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		themartorana on Jan 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook's “free internet” programme hits a roadbl... Yeah, but you have to dig up roads to put new fiber down.

icebraining on Jan 7, 2016 [–]

Nope, you just install plastic tubing which you can then use to run the fiber. The US federal government has already passed the Broadband Conduit Deployment Act to that end.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/05/new-bill-wants-fi...

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