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No Jeff didn't drop the ban hammer on me yet but the phone company and county have.
So I live in a rural area and have dirt road for about a mile either direction to a paved road. Years ago when I had our phone installed here they came out of a telephone box about a 1/2 mile away and trenched right down the middle of the road to where they were going to turn the line to come onto our land there was a fairly deep ditch and they buried the line 3 or 4" below the bottom of the ditch. The county maintains those ditches and the first time they came out to drag them deeper with the grader of course they cut the phone line.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago the county was pulling the ditches and bingo my neighbor and I both loose phone and internet. Call they phone company and they say 5 or 6 days till they can fix it. The phone tech that comes out says he knows exactly where it's cut because they have cut it there before it's not deep enough. He fixes it and tells us he's going to "start a ticket to replace that line" so we have phone and internet back for 2 days and while I'm watching an online equipment auction that I want to bid on a few things the internet goes out. Try rebooting and nothing finally pick up the phone and it's dead grrrrrr. Call the neighbor and theirs is out as well. We talk to another neighbor farther down the road and he has seen some guys putting down new cable. Several calls to the phone company and we find out the ""contractor" they used to replace the line screwed it up and in 5 or 6 days they'd have a tech out to fix it. He comes out tell us they replaced about 100' of the line buried it deeper but then hooked it up wrong.
Sorry for the long rant but it has been driving me nuts and my eyes are too old for using my cell and my fingers are way to big for that tiny cell phone keyboard.
So I live in a rural area and have dirt road for about a mile either direction to a paved road. Years ago when I had our phone installed here they came out of a telephone box about a 1/2 mile away and trenched right down the middle of the road to where they were going to turn the line to come onto our land there was a fairly deep ditch and they buried the line 3 or 4" below the bottom of the ditch. The county maintains those ditches and the first time they came out to drag them deeper with the grader of course they cut the phone line.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago the county was pulling the ditches and bingo my neighbor and I both loose phone and internet. Call they phone company and they say 5 or 6 days till they can fix it. The phone tech that comes out says he knows exactly where it's cut because they have cut it there before it's not deep enough. He fixes it and tells us he's going to "start a ticket to replace that line" so we have phone and internet back for 2 days and while I'm watching an online equipment auction that I want to bid on a few things the internet goes out. Try rebooting and nothing finally pick up the phone and it's dead grrrrrr. Call the neighbor and theirs is out as well. We talk to another neighbor farther down the road and he has seen some guys putting down new cable. Several calls to the phone company and we find out the ""contractor" they used to replace the line screwed it up and in 5 or 6 days they'd have a tech out to fix it. He comes out tell us they replaced about 100' of the line buried it deeper but then hooked it up wrong.
Sorry for the long rant but it has been driving me nuts and my eyes are too old for using my cell and my fingers are way to big for that tiny cell phone keyboard.