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How Fiber Internet Wrecked a Las Vegas Neighborhood

How Fiber Internet Wrecked a Las Vegas Neighborhood

City Cast Las Vegas

June 25, 202523m 15s

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Show Notes

The pandemic showed us how crucial fast, reliable internet access is to modern life — but in one downtown neighborhood, the installation of fast fiber internet created horrific problems. Neighborhood advocate Patricia Haddad Bennett tells co-host Sarah Lohman how high-speed internet installation resulted in sewage overflows and home damage, blocked and towed vehicles, and paved-over landscaping. So how did "microtrenching," their new construction method, play out, and who is to blame? And crucially, as fiber internet expands across the valley, how can your neighborhood prepare?

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Southern Nevada Water Authority

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