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Re: Qwest to pay $350 million for fiber cut( Re: PSINet outage?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Wed Nov 15 19:06:36 2000
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:04:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: max_smetannikov@ziffdavis.com,
"'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
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On 15 Nov 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
> In Austin a jury ordered Qwest to pay over $350 million to AT&T for
> repeatedly cutting a fiber optic line.
Perhaps a law could cover this -- a baseline fine for cutting a cable, and
each repeat cut triples the fine. Telcos will be complacent only as far as
their pocketbook will let them be.
-Dan
