I'm seeing a disturbing pattern develop. Qwest contractors seem to be involved in an unusual number of cases of damaging other providers fiber. I understand that everyone makes mistakes, and a wide-variety of other equipment operators have caused many fiber cuts. But Qwest's name seems to show up with unusual frequency in the last year. Here are the ones I found in my notes. Milwaukee-to-Chicago May 4, 1999 Smyrna, GA March 11, 1999 Gurnee, IL November 19, 1998 (drilled fiber three times over a mile) Anyone have notes about others? I have a vague recollection of a couple of more, but couldn't find them in my notes. I don't know who Qwest is hiring to bury its fiber, but I would like to call on Qwest to conduct an immediate stand-down until it can review its fiber installation practices, training and supervision with its contractors. Including review of safe digging/drilling practices around other providers' fiber. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation