[geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online

[James Fogg]

> [0] Except for the time the cable *broke* in my front yard (ground shifted
and snapped the cable underground,
>no digging in yard to break it). Anyway, it took over two months for  > them
to get a trencher out to bury a new
>cable run from the pedestal to my house... After running an above-ground
cable the day I called in the initial
>problem, then comng out two   > more times over the next two months to
replace a cable cut by the guy cutting our yard...
>
> I didn't know trenchers were so scarce...


Not scarce, but very dangerous. Operator training and insurance and all.
My cableco got in a pissing contest with the telco because they each cut the
others cables back and forth a few times as they trenched. I finally had to
dig the damn trench myself and now most of the phone and cable lines are
laying on top of forest litter above ground (I only trenched for about 40 feet
of conduit). Cable and telco both insisted I had to pay $2000.00 to have a
conduit laid to the pedestals. Screw that.

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