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Technology Stocks : Qwest Communications (Q) (formerly QWST) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lost to Voodoo who wrote (2897)	2/5/1999 10:20:00 PM
From: Alejandro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6846

From what I read, you are correct. They are 4foot down. One is empty and there are access manholes along the way to pull fiber thru the empty one. What confuses me is that the conduit with the fiber, has enough capacity that maybe 75 % is dark. I cannot remember the number of lines installed and how many are lit in the non-empty conduit but there is plenty capacity.

To: Lost to Voodoo who wrote (2897)	2/8/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: Roger Hess	Respond to of 6846

albedo - check out a few of my earlier posts (2488, 2493, & 2531). Qwest may have come to the conclusion that it doesn't cost much more to bury five conduits than two. Or, perhaps, they run two in some areas and five in others. Anyway, with five they will have more capability to run more fiber for more customers (or themselves). I think the difficult part is burying the conduit. They have repeated delays with other trains coming through and having to get out of the way, etc. The conduit is run by means of a train on the tracks, whereas the fiber is run through the conduit from the side, without blocking the tracks. One other thing. I don't know how their competitors are building their networks, but I don't think they have the same right-of-ways along RR tracks as QWST. This thing is going to be finished before the competitors'.