On 19/12/10 10:55 PM, George Bonser wrote:
There were streets where you couldn't hardly see the sky because of
all
the wires on the poles.
Can you provide a link to a photo of this situation?
come to tokyo. or hcmc. or ... it's an art form.
http://www.sfgate.com/blogs/images/sfgate/beltran/2009/07/24/Tina_modotti_wires447x625.jpg
This is not the result of many different providers, it's the result of
one provider stringing many lines to supply service. I'm guessing this
was before they figured out how to run trunk lines and then split out
the calls from the trunk into individual lines closer to the end user's
location - or how to bundle lines together, etc. So each wire we see in
that photo is a *single* wire running from the central office to one
subscriber (or party line).
India:
http://pinkbunnyears.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/telephone-pole.jpg
Department of Telecommunications (DoT), is the monopoly operator in
India. That photo isn't due to a situation where there were numerous
different providers, it's due to ONE provider with a monopoly, doing a
half-assed job.
I checked the first and last links you posted, and neither of them had
anything to do with the topic of "50 providers stringing lines to every
house". I'm not going to waste my time checking the rest of the links -
especially since you can't even bother to properly format them so they
don't break and they have to be pieced together to work.
jc