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Subject:    Telcom lawyer? was Re: Verizon charges to remove their copper??
From:       up () 3 ! am
Date:       2006-11-27 19:45:18
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.44.0611271442540.74118-100000 () richard2 ! pil ! net
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 larrysheldon@cox.net wrote:

> ---- up@3.am wrote:
> >
> > Ok...so I started this ISP nearly 11 years ago.  Bell Atlantic, as they
> > were known back then, brings a 100 pair copper cable and terminal to my
> > house, after which they made many tens of thousands of dollars from my
> > business over the next decade or so.
> >
> > I've since outsourced the dialup, and just moved my servers to a data
> > center, so it's time to get their equipment out.  I caled my rep, who sent
> > out an engineer last week.  Today I get a letter that I need to pay them
> > over two grand (in advance) for them to come and remove this.
> >
> > Is this kosher?
>
> Feller some years ago laid a hammer or sorts on the Bell System (R.I.P.)
> on your behalf.
>
> One of the effects of that is, all that stuff on your side of the demarc
> is yours.
>
> Your junk, your responsiblity to remove it.  One of the services they
> still provide for a price is junk removal.

ok...does anyone know of a decent telecom lawyer in PA that I can verify
this with?  I seem to remember we had a good, somewhat famous one in
Harrisburgh back in 97 or so, but cannot remember his name...

TIA,

James Smallacombe		      PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am							    http://3.am
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