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cableties
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From my experience, much the pole-mounted punchboxes and trunks (in my old neighborhood) date back to the late 40's and 50's. The trunk has seen its day: cracks, fatigue, oxidation...who would want to replace the copper with more?
I wonder how many households do not have a cellphone?
So, what is the point of maintenance when you will eventually replace the mains with glass?
(One of my techs, er I mean Verizon techs, would come out every spring and fall to repunch the noisey lines. That has to cost ALOT...in labor alone...) | |
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1 edit | said by cableties  :I wonder how many households do not have a cellphone? So, what is the point of maintenance when you will eventually replace the mains with glass? (One of my techs, er I mean Verizon techs, would come out every spring and fall to repunch the noisey lines. That has to cost ALOT...in labor alone...) Here we go again, someone who thinks cell phones are the answer to everything. I can't wait till the first fiber cut that shuts down a large area of VZ's network for a few hours. Including TV.. OH MY GOD! What do we do now? Wait, we can call aunt milly and.. oh darn, that vz cell isn't working because the lone cell site that covered our area is dead due to the fiber that carried that call from the pop site to the CO has gone dark.. Now what? CALL SAM on the nations most reliable network!!!  | |
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said by cableties :From my experience, much the pole-mounted punchboxes and trunks (in my old neighborhood) date back to the late 40's and 50's. The trunk has seen its day: cracks, fatigue, oxidation...who would want to replace the copper with more? Understandable, but not really the point. The point is that they have regular customers who have POTS and DSL services on that existing infrastructure, and in areas where they have not begun installing FIOS. By refusing to maintain the infrastructure, these people are in effect abandoned... But I'm sure they are still being billed. As the line conditions worsen, the DSL service degrades and becomes slow and eventually not-sustainable. And let's not even think about dial-up over noisy lines---- uggghhh
There's nothing wrong with deploying FIOS, but you need to keep your existing infrastructure in decent shape until you've replaced it. Then retire it. Not before!
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