[31481] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: The Backhoe Summit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Sep 25 10:58:29 2000
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 07:55:14 -0700
From: owen@dixon.delong.sj.ca.us (Owen DeLong)
Message-Id: <200009251455.HAA15860@irkutsk.delong.sj.ca.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu, sean@donelan.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 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
>
- Almost every representative of every large telco I've ever talked to about
this subject.
Owen
