Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!bu.edu!telecom-request From: jwt!john@uunet.uu.net (John Temples) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: In a Corner of our Bedroom Message-ID: Date: 26 Feb 91 02:33:28 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: Private System -- Orlando, FL Lines: 35 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 158, Message 12 of 13 In article John_Richard_Bruni@ cup.portal.com writes: > But what a mickey-mouse installation! I really want it out of here. What if one of the neighbors wanted to add another line? Would it have to be done at YOUR convenience since the telco would need access to your bedroom? What if you were out of town for a couple of weeks -- or for the winter? John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john) [Moderator's Note: Unfortunatly, they (telco) could demand a key from the landlord and enter the premises to work. Telco always has what is known as 'easement rights' where their wires are placed. We had a story in the Digest more than a year ago about a situation almost like this one: A man who was visually hanicapped had run an answering service from his home for many years. He apparently had about a hundred subscriber lines terminating on a switchboard in a room in his house. The service closed down, he moved and sold the house. The woman who bought it did not realize that in the room which would become her bedroom there was a *large* terminal box in the closet. Since it was an older urban neighborhood in a suburb here, as to be expected the hundred or so pairs terminating in that terminal box were multipled all over over the neighborhood. She had phone pairs for everyone in a two or three block area in the box in her bedroom. Telco said they would move the box elsewhere if she paid them a couple thousand dollars to do so; she demanded rent from telco and they told her to jump in the lake. The last I heard, she was suing the guy who sold her the house, to get him to pay the telco for the move, and telco was pressuring her to provide them with a key to get into the area as required. PAT]