On 9/22/07, Wayne E. Bouchard <web@typo.org> wrote:
I realize that it's expensive to run these lines but when you put your working and protect in the same cable or different cables in the same trench (not even a trench a few feet apart, but the same trench and same innerduct), you have to EXPECT that you're gonna have angry customers. And yet when telco folks learn that this has occured, they often fein being as surprised as the customers.
.. and as long as they are the only telco with copper in the area, they could care less, I guess?
jump off his tractor and hit a lever that lowered an auger that sliced a fiber-optic line.
ps: That story had a kind of "... that killed the rat that ate the malt that made the house that jack built" feel to it. srs