[31450] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: The Backhoe Summit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun Sep 24 03:25:22 2000
Date: 24 Sep 2000 00:23:08 -0700
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To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
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On Sat, 23 September 2000, John Fraizer wrote:
> On 23 Sep 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 rdobbins@netmore.net wrote:
> > > Do the large carriers now participate in 'one-call' operations like power
> > > and gas companies do? At least in Virginia a couple of years ago, they
> > > didn't. It might be a good idea for them to do so.
> >
> > "For competitive reasons we can't tell you the location of our fiber."
> >
> > - An anonymous representative of a very large telco
>
> Wow. They must not have any fiber near our facility. The folks running
> the digging operations are keeping Plastikote in business selling orange
> paint. There seems to be more orange than black on the blacktop -- all of
> it marked pretty clearly with the carrier name.
Ask them for a map.
Yeah, I know a lot of folks have resorted to calling OneCall, getting the
street painted orange, and making their own maps.
