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After the conduit was buried along a railroad track or other
right-of-way, or attached to a bridge or tunnel, Qwest could
pull fiber through the conduit using hand holes.
2. The Coast Route Project
In December 1988, Qwest began its first conduit installation
project along the Coast Route, a route running from Los Angeles
to San Francisco. Qwest acted primarily as a general contractor
and subcontracted out most of the construction work to third
parties. The Coast Route project was performed for several long-
distance carriers, including AT&T, Sprint, WilTel, and MCI. All
of the Coast Route customers did not purchase conduit along the
entire route, and each customer’s fiberoptic cable was pulled
only through the portions of the conduit purchased by that
customer. However, Qwest laid multiple conduits along the entire
route for its own potential future use or sale. Up to this
point, installations of multiple conduits had not been done in
the telecommunications industry.
As a result of the project, Qwest obtained several
unconnected segments of empty conduit along the Coast Route.
From the long-distance carriers, Qwest received cash compensation
and capacity in the form of 18 DS-3s along MCI’s fiberoptic
cable. Qwest offered the DS-3 capacity as a wholesale
opportunity to long-distance carriers.
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