Glass on the Mountain
The local telephone membership cooperative, Skyline, is replacing its copper telephone lines with fiber optic cables. Indeed, last week they ran an optical line right to a box on the side of the house.
The cooperative was founded in 1951 to bring telephone service to Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga counties and I still find the occasional length of bare wire from the early days in the woods. The cooperative has been laying the new fiber optic cables for a couple of months now, but it's still a little strange to think of glass fibers in Air Bellows. After all, we missed the cable TV era completely and now we have a communications link that many communities in the flatlands would die to have.
Shhhh. Don't tell anyone.
The cooperative was founded in 1951 to bring telephone service to Alleghany, Ashe and Watauga counties and I still find the occasional length of bare wire from the early days in the woods. The cooperative has been laying the new fiber optic cables for a couple of months now, but it's still a little strange to think of glass fibers in Air Bellows. After all, we missed the cable TV era completely and now we have a communications link that many communities in the flatlands would die to have.
Shhhh. Don't tell anyone.
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