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From: haynes@UCSCC.UCSC.EDU (99700000)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: I would check further...
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Date: 17 Mar 88 05:53:25 GMT
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Reply-To: ucscc.UCSC.EDU!haynes@decwrl.dec.com (Jim Haynes)
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Seems to me you should check with your state P.U.C. to see what's
happening.  In Calif this year the phone company offered a choice
of you take responsibility for your own inside-house wiring or you
pay them 50 cents a month and they will maintain it.  Also the last
time I needed the lines worked on (the wire from pole to house
got leaky and noisy) they put a box on the side of the house that
holds the lightning protector and a modular jack, so that the
customer can plug a modular phone right into the line wire, disconnecting
the house wiring, to tell whether the trouble is in inside or outside
wiring.  They didn't charge anything for repairing the outside
wire or for the disconnect box.  So I assume all this means they
regard the inside wiring as the homeowner's property and that
if I had elected to pay them the 50cents/month that would be just
a maintenance contract and not rental on the wire.

But of course this kind of thing varies from state to state, so
yours is probably different.

haynes@ucscc.ucsc.edu
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