Re: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was AT&T diversity)

["Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>]

William Herrin <bill () herrin us> writes:

> That depends on the cost of recovering it. We're not talking about
> salvage operators pulling cable, we're talking about highly trained
> [sic] Verizon installers.
>
> The last 4 pairs in use on that 3000 count cable will tend to linger a
> long, long time before you can go remove it. Mostly you'll recover
> short runs of low-count cable like the fifty-foot two and six pair
> cables from the street to the house: maybe $3 in scrap. How many
> dollars worth of time will the installer bill Verizon for recovering
> it?

I bet there is some kind of creative accounting that they can use that
makes this totally worthwhile window dressing on their 10-Qs.

-r