My guess was this cable was for Telecommunications rather than electricity http://ramin.com.au/goa/web-card4.html
and might help explain: Subscriber Growth in Telecom Sector in India ------------------------------------------------------- Wireline March 2007:40.77million October 2011:33.19million Wireless: March 2007: 165.09million Oct 2011: 881.41million Internet March 07:31.3million March 11: 381.40million <http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=79183> and the uptake of localised Solar/Wind and inverters and storage are pretty standard where large scale fossil fuel generated electricity & water utilities are unreliable. http://www.ramin.com.au/eco-sydney/solar-wind-power-around-the-world.shtml Marghanita Tom Worthington wrote: > On 13/04/13 18:30, Jan Whitaker wrote: > >> ... India wiring mess ... > > The National University of Samoa had an elegant solution to cabling. > They used a wheelie bin and a palm tree to hold the cable dispenser, for > installing their underground data cabling. > > Less successfully, someone had strung ordinary indoor CAT 5 cable from > the power poles in the main street of Apia (the capital of Samoa) and > this was deteriorating in the tropical sun. > > I was in town for a week to teach web design: > http://www.tomw.net.au/2005/emuseums/ > > -- Marghanita da Cruz Ramin Communications Pty Ltd http://ramin.com.au/ Phone:(+61)0414-869202 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
