Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Some Realities About Repair of Damaged Aerial Telephone Cables Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 07:52:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 20 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 220, Message 8 of 10 David Lesher writes: > What you REALLY want to do, John, is just get a SLC-96 installed in > your basement ;^]. Then, next fire, all they would have to do is run > some new fibers. Well, I tried to get T1, but even when it becomes available, Pac*Bell wants to charge me extra to save them money. Right now, my ten lines come in on individual drops, reminiscent of an alleyway in some slum. My friends all have managed to get Pac*Bell to at least install cable drops to THEIR houses. When a repair type comes to the house, he has to pull the covers off of every type of protector block available over the past thirty years to find the line in question. I would love to get it cleaned up, but it is on Pac*Bell's side of the demarc and you can bet there is no interest whatever in cleaning anything up. Especially at MY house :-) John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !