Sure UETCL does have fiber but they are only used for communication, not power transmission which is done using aluminium cables.
-- Hari On 13 November 2010 20:42, Reinier Battenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > AFAIK UETCL has a string of fiber attached to their electricity cables. That > fiber cable was the one that broke above the rugby ground during the bomb > blasts. > > UETCL has that fiber to control their electricity network, and it happened > to be very useful to connect it to the interweb and sell capacity. > > (its all hearsay, but from very nice people) > > -- > > rgds, > > Reinier Battenberg > > Director > > Mountbatten Ltd. > > +256 758 801 749 > > www.mountbatten.net > > On Saturday 13 November 2010 20:12:07 Hari Kurup wrote: > >> Cavin, > >> > >> Your paper says "Several firms in the energy sector, use fiber cables > >> to transmit electricity country wide..." > >> > >> To my knowledge, fiber cables do not conduct electricity. Please > >> motivate your statement. > >> > >> PS: I am only trying to help. > >> > >> -- > >> Hari > >> > >> On 13 November 2010 18:23, Mugarura Cavin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > my ob Stephen, > >> > this is a very rough version, > >> > > >> > http://nokia.hosted.jivesoftware.com/ideas/1080 > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > LUG mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >> > > >> > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >> > > >> > All Archives can be found at >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >> > > >> > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > >> > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > >> > way. --------------------------------------- > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> LUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >> > >> LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >> > >> All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >> > >> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > >> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any > >> way. --------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
