patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to Dogfather
Re: The only way said by Dogfather:I didn't know they replace copper every 2-3 decades. I don't know anyone who had ever had their copper replaced and have never seen Verizon do it. Trunk lines do get replaced every couple decades. At former bed and breakfast, until the 1960s there was a party line for the property shared with the rest of the road, when my friend bought the property and ordered phone service, personal lines were now available and the party lines were grandfathered around that time. The trunk line there today looks less than 20 years old, shiny plastic trunk line, and 3M branded plastic splice cases. In NYC in my neighborhood, some areas have new looking plastic trunk lines, and older white fabric trunk lines, and also there are ancient western electric metal splice cases, and plastic splice cases. Pairs die inside trunk lines over time, at a certain point, you'll have to replace the trunk line or you'll have to deny lines or install simple pair gain devices to have lines, and even pair gains will stop working if you run out of pairs. |
