[151471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was AT&T diversity)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Thu Mar 22 14:23:06 2012
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:21:47 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGU+Cz2nhi==PNRXzFm0wobbNOSkZzaFxarAPdLbCgWBBw@mail.gmail.com> (William
Herrin's message of "Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:53:10 -0400")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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
