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X_Digger

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Wed May-04-11 10:02 PM
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2. It wasn't about the mid 90's, it was more about after the dot com bust..

Lines were being laid in expectation of continued growth, which never happened.

To answer your question- yes there is still a lot of dark fiber, but not as much as in, say, 2002 or 2003. The Verizon/MCI buy out and subsequent FiOS rollout lit up a lot of fiber, as did AT&Ts U-Verse initiative.

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