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our narion's liteline to bemg- liecome absolutely dependent upon public.
in-the-know," while others the communication industry to keep
say, ”Mur2 communication us intormed and together. I guess A ’“5“‘‘ 9‘ *"‘f°}‘ “ “Ck °f ‘“““‘Y
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yust means more take news. Right that s why the race to provide the most
[1 . _ he . . denied the time to liring their resources
or wrong, ere is w t we know in bandwidth tor the longest contract at e eh I E _ eh I
the iield. eopper, tiber and wireless the most attractive initial price seems to "if 9‘ ° “‘“}e°{‘ “eff” 1“ me
technologies have combined both drive the communieationscoinpetitors K 51”“ “Y?” E“ "‘ E .“:e.“ ” ei
aerial and underground to create a at a turious pace in almost every corner 9“ 23"“ 9 “E” F"““ “E 3“
_ unreasonable expectations; most or
maze of ducts and lines that some or the country.
locators declare almost impossible to . . “Tl“d‘ “°““ “"2 hm‘ "°3d‘d by
eeeeuelely ee eemmenuy Pmeee lnternet eompames, Phone companies giving enough advance notice and good
and the cable indusrry are all vying contact intonnation necessary to get
Likely it is not possible to tor your dollars as they relate to ahead or the work and minimize the
overestirriate the importance of communication. we appreciate the frustrations.
our nn|1'nn’s communications extra bandwidth and speed but E eh . h b . _
intrasrructute, given our dependence untortunately, the rare to be iirs-t " e‘e‘e,‘5_‘e“f5e P ‘;‘l‘° “‘e‘}’e"e‘“ ‘” 3
upun ii. iii.-t the other day, i sat In to an area has created some 33: ee feejg-engjnefhefe “lfee
a local restaurant next to a tamily unintended consequences tor the .

. . . commumeate. All stakeholders on these
oteight. l noriced the grandtather protess-ionals working to keep H e_ e . e e e d 1 d
watching a news channel on one ot America's underground intrastructure “I: ‘:hP’,“_!‘° * 3'“ d” ““ ‘e"e,““ _
the many ws hanging on awall. protected. E“ ° “T ’ ."*° 5”“ “P” 3 °“"

. . commumcating with one another
His two sons were lioth watching a . . .
. An example recently cited by a contract throughout the project is critical to

sporting event on another TV and . . .

fem ei the eldee me Weee heldme locator was the only norice he received ensure that othzreuhllty locators can get

. that 40 subcontractors were moving in trout and shy in tront uf the proiect.
their smart phones scrolling through . . .
. . into his area was the notiiication

something, while the two-year-old eeeeevee hem the B“ Cemee Nee At the end of the day, lioth the

was watching a movie on a smart em flee“ 1 the wee‘ wee eem in excavator and loeator have the same
phone while in her father's lap. ehege emf gneeefin {eeeeeeeee goals. Both want to take care ot their
Dunne the 30 memes I wee ‘here I I uistomers, they want to keep the public

nus paradnxlcal lack ot communication and their employees sate.
next to them, there were very few .
,, from a communication expert leads ,

words spoken, other than pass me e E T‘ I _ f H 1 ed d surely by now, we ve learned that each
the »~"31‘"1“|°“Shlr "Nothmt;1i1<2 D m” .3 ‘°'‘’ °' 3 "W" V . "“ or us has our tnisrrations even under

. _ . unnecessary delays, damage. to .
getting together tor some quality the best of circumstances and many or
femely fime_,, underground intrastrueture and

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