22 Mar
2012
22 Mar
'12
2:21 p.m.
William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> writes:
That depends on the cost of recovering it. We're not talking about salvage operators pulling cable, we're talking about highly trained [sic] Verizon installers.
The last 4 pairs in use on that 3000 count cable will tend to linger a long, long time before you can go remove it. Mostly you'll recover short runs of low-count cable like the fifty-foot two and six pair cables from the street to the house: maybe $3 in scrap. How many dollars worth of time will the installer bill Verizon for recovering it?
I bet there is some kind of creative accounting that they can use that makes this totally worthwhile window dressing on their 10-Qs. -r