William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> writes: > That depends on the cost of recovering it. We're not talking about > salvage operators pulling cable, we're talking about highly trained > [sic] Verizon installers. > > The last 4 pairs in use on that 3000 count cable will tend to linger a > long, long time before you can go remove it. Mostly you'll recover > short runs of low-count cable like the fifty-foot two and six pair > cables from the street to the house: maybe $3 in scrap. How many > dollars worth of time will the installer bill Verizon for recovering > it?
I bet there is some kind of creative accounting that they can use that makes this totally worthwhile window dressing on their 10-Qs. -r
