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Found some temporarely mounted very shielded looking wire running across what seems to be a construction site which goes into the ground on both sides. Anyone got an Idea what its being used for? (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)

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[–] bklyn@piefed.social 38 points 1 day ago (9 children)

That looks like high capacity coaxial cable. Probably for phone and Internet usage for the neighborhood. But it’s hard to tell.

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I second this. I had coaxial cable at home bunch of years ago. It was used for phone, internet and tv. Looks a lot like the one I had.

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