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To: ftth who wrote (31769)	10/20/2009 12:41:24 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Agreed, most of the cases I've come across, as you have suggested, boil down to affordability, not laws and regulations. Sometimes in urban settings, however, especially in older cities with Revolutionary War artifacts still in place, one sometimes comes across prohibitions on laying fiber due to landmark preservation rules. I have in my travels over the years come across this several times. Once during an early metro fiber design in downtown Manhattan (where George Washington is said to have dined with his troops at Fraunces Tavern, we found that easements of adjacent buildings, which we wanted to traverse, were marked off-limits to construction activities), and in one university setting at CUNY's CCNY campus, in gaining access to, and the interior wiring, of this building: bit.ly . Both obstacles were circumventable, however, but only after making special provisions to ensure against future disturbances (such as laying in cold fiber, which is another way of saying micro-ducts for future fiber blow-ins), and usually require a great deal of finesse. ------