if you are truly serious about learning fiber and want to pay for the course... get several people together and have the light brigade send a trainer to you. I'm not sure of the cost, but one of the companies i used to work for did just that, and had the light brigade come to our location and teach us the basics of fiber, to include splicing....well worth the time and $$ that they spent on it.
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