Officials at Yellowstone National Park are seeking public comment on an environmental assessment to consider replacing the park’s aging telecommunication system with an underground fiber optic line.
Public comment, which will be accepted through April 21, is expected to analyze whether to grant New Jersey-based Diamond Communications a permit to use the park’s right of way to bury the cable, the Billings Gazette reported. The installation would cause temporary traffic delays extending from April to November for three years.
“The existing telecommunications infrastructure within the park offers very limited capacity, has little redundancy, and is unreliable,” the assessment said. “The existing infrastructure routinely reaches capacity and is overwhelmed with data requests throughout the season, and once the existing network is overwhelmed, operations that depend on the data network become impossible to perform.”
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