Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!agate!telecom-request From: Ed_Greenberg@3mail.3com.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Bell of PA's Guardian Service Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 18:41:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 41 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 265, Message 10 of 12 Phydeaux writes: > ..... I've never had inside wiring problems. I tried to convince one > friend of this recently. She lives in an apartment building and is > spending $2 each month for "wire maintenance." What a rip-off. I live in an apartment building. We have an interesting situation for inside wiring. Pairs are multipled through apartments and down to a phone closet on the side of the building. There they are cross connected to the incoming cable on nut and bolt type blocks. The entire shebang is locked with a lock that says "Bell System"! Inside this locked island of pre-mfj phonedom is one (count 'em) grey modern demark for my two lines. I had the telco mount this during my one inside wire failure. My inside wire failure was sabotage, or more probably vandalism. Somebody seemed to have reached into the cabinet (it's open at the bottom) and pulled down a loop of wire (mine.) The telco charge to fix this was $60, which was paid (cheerfully) by the building management. Thus I have established a precedent that inside wire maintenance is, at least at 1600 Stokes Street, a building repair. Next question: If I want to perform my own connection to the inside wire, will the telco send a man at no charge to unlock the lock? edg [Moderator's Note: Here in Chicago, in one of the very bad neighborhoods, a situation like yours culminated in one group of neighbors going after another group with *guns*, each accusing the other of disrupting phone service while trying to install their own lines. They had gotten into each other's pair multiples and made a terrible mess. It turned out one person had paid the janitor in their building to 'run a wire' for them. He knocked out the others ... just another of the wonderful aspects of permitting the federal judiciary to administer the phone system in the USA. PAT]