Re: Vandalism Likely In Big South Bay Phone Outage

2009-04-10 Thread Martin Hannigan
The reward is effective and the one of the best uses of their funds in responding to this event. More outside plant spending is not effective when you are dealing with motivated individuals. I'd like to reemphasize that you can't spend enough on outside or inside plant to stop this type of thing.

Re: Vandalism Likely In Big South Bay Phone Outage

2009-04-10 Thread Bob Bradlee
Sounds to me like an ongoing dispute may be close to the bottom of this. http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/04/06/att-union-contract-expires-threat-to-cap-ex/ AT&T's answer is to place a $100k bounty on the vandals. The other Bob