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QUALITY PROTECTS.
States, almost 40 million of them in just the last year. Logically, it follows that telecommunication damages, and especially fiber damages are on the rise. Most in the industry attribute the increase in the amount of fiber placement to the “wireless push” and the need for more fiber to support the amount of traffic necessary to power 4G and 5G networks.
A long time employee of the phone company was recently heard saying, “Days of plain old telephone services are over. Our biggest competitors are typically our own wireless divisions. Repairing copper lines is still a major problem, but damaging
a fiber can have greater impact than just interrupting residential and commercial services.”
As new neighborhoods
continue to be developed,
fiber to housing developments promoting video and high speed
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