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Re: Primes

 I have been in this business for over 40 years.  50 if you count the time I spent fixing TVs in high school.  So I don't think 5 years is a long time.  Our company used to have as many coax splicers as line crews.  But now we have no coax splicers.  Why?  No future in it.  As a young person entering the work force, why in the world would anyone want to learn an obsolete trade that is essentially gone, except for a few sporadic projects that will MAYBE last only 5 years.   I understand the SHORT term economic advantages of using 20 to 40 year old coax in your upgrade but it is a NOT a long term solution.   30 years ago, one of the smartest men I have ever met said to me, "WHO EVER GETS TO THE HOUSE WITH FIBER FIRST, WINS!"  The more I thought about that statement the more I believed it would be true.  Now 30 years later, it is true.  There were and are FTTH over-builds all over the country proving his statement to be very accurate. 

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