Reply #53: in your case, highly-trained techs would be needed [View All]

[ngant17]

In my previous telecom work, FTTP or "fiber-to-the-premise" as some call it, I don't recall being in anything other than residential-type headends, which in my case were built around new housing developments and they were not what you would call pure commercial systems.

I met some people who had extensive experience in T1 maintenance, and I would definitely call them skilled telecom workers.

T1s, T3s, and class 4/5 systems are outside my league so I can't comment on that aspect of telecommuncations.

I would have liked to move up to the skill levels to which you are referring, but I'm moving on in a different direction now and not dwelling on the past.

Basically I don't see a problem with nationalizing the telecom industry like Chavez is doing now in Venezuela. If they can do it successfully in Latin America, there is no reason we can not do the same here.