said by Splitpair 
:The industry practice is if a loop is extended is to do a cutover to a new cable be it in or out and due to the type of work and for continunity of service the old cable is bridged tapped until the work is completed and then once completed the old cable is cut free leaving the loop as it was before the cut only with new copper in place.
Truth is nowadays Telco's be they ILEC's or indies are doing everything they can to shorten the copper loop as it is the loss's in that loop that are the block to providing higher speeds.
Any work that would modify a loop to the point that it would be no longer useable to the CLEC for pre-existing service the ILEC is required by the FCC to notify the CLEC well in advance of any changes to allow the CLEC time to make arraignments to provide a co-operative cutover.
Wayne
I wonder why AT&T and Bellsouth before that aren't the good employee that follows the book all the time? It seems they can't stop from being fined for ignoring what they publish and when they have guidelines they don't want to follow, they just say "What Guidelines? We are the phone company, we don't have to follow the law, we just make it up as we go along.
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