Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: ELINSKY%YKTVMX.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Jay Elinsky) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why can't I choose AT&T? Message-ID: Date: 20 Jul 89 03:04:37 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 247, message 4 of 10 The moderator describes how to convince the local Bell company to install regular phone service in an employer-built housing complex. But doesn't the phone company need the housing complex's permission to run wires or to use the existing wires? Do they have to give permission? Jay Elinsky IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY [Moderator's Note: Telephone companies have easement rights, permitting them to cross your property with their wires, etc. Likewise, here in Illinois, cable companies have easement rights; that is, a landlord cannot prohibit a cable company from providing service to an individual tenant. Here in Chicago however, cable firms as well as telco have a monopoly status granted to them based on neighborhood. PT]