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From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Inside Telco wiring
Message-ID: <586@westmark.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 04:22:30 GMT
References: <1032@naucse.UUCP> <24447@sri-unix.SRI.COM>
Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA
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In article <24447@sri-unix.SRI.COM>, maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak) writes:
...
> In the law, there is something called the warrant of
> merchantibility, which means that someone who offers something for sale
> is selling you what they say they're selling you.  The phone folks
> were selling you an operating phone line, I would think,
> so if you get there and use the line for the first time and
> it doesn't work, it's their problem, not yours: ...
..
> Valerie Maslak


No, Valerie, the phone company sells you a network access line. If
they can deliver dial tone to the network interface, they've done
exactly what they've offered to.  If the power company delivers the
appropriate amount of electricity to your service entrance, they've
done the same.  If your house wiring is faulty, it's not the fault
of the utility.  If you want to, you can hire an electrician to
correct your house wiring -- telephone or electric.  What Robert is
recommending is that one should accept the Telco's offer of
providing the services of their own electricians, at a rate that is
probably less than he'd pay for any other electrician.  If the rate
is only $1 per month, it's probably a good idea.  Here in NJ, it is
more expensive.  Where I live, my inside telephone wiring is easily
accessible in my unfinished basement, and I choose not to pay for
services I do not require.

Robert does not tell us what problem was corrected.  If the trouble
was on the Telco side of the Network Interface, then the Telco was
obligated to fix it, whether or not he paid for the optional inside
wire maintenance service.  If the trouble was on the customer side
of the Network Interface, then he (or his landlord) was so
obligated.

Either way, it's nice to have the choice.

-- 
Dave Levenson
Westmark, Inc.		The Man in the Mooney
Warren, NJ USA
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