VZ needs to be investigated throughout its footprint. Poor workmanship and falling apart infrastructure are not unique to PA. Same thing is happening in VA, in MD, in NY.
I have wrote enough regarding VZ's cheapness, lack of care, and absolute apathy for their customer base. VZ Corporate is on a planned agenda to destroy their ILEC operating companies from the inside-out; break the union, abandon over 1/2 of the footprint, and keep the FiOS as a little sweet reward. No company willingly operates the way VZ does if they have any intention of sticking around for the long term.
A few months ago I found this gem of a "repair" - it was quite aged and "temporary" in the sense that they will never replace the splice case, just replace the bag:
Such repairs like this are SOP for VZ and copper services (yes, in non-FiOS areas stuff like this is common, some people think they just do this to the copper in areas where FiOS is present but this is wrong).