myyummyass t1_ispdkkb wrote on October 17, 2022 at 6:33 PM

Reply to comment by aquanutz in Comcast wanted $210,000 for Internet—so this man helped expand a co-op fiber ISP | Fed up with Comcast and AT&T, Silicon Valley residents started their own network. by chrisdh79

A lot of this is also because different service providers don’t run their lines where they’re supposed to. Especially in a city like that where everyone’s on top of each other, if techs are trying to work on something and another provider put lines in their way they will just cut them.

edit: not sure why i was downvoted. never mind my 16 years of experience working in this industry lol

FruityWelsh t1_isq3ybh wrote on October 17, 2022 at 9:25 PM

No labeling or testing also has it happen. The amount of cable I've cut because no one knew it was there is pretty absurd for how little I was doing any work related to it. It's normally a deadline as well, but you have to go around asking people to make sure you didn't ruin someone's service.

trail_mix24 t1_iss9sqo wrote on October 18, 2022 at 10:08 AM

I was a house tech for fiber, but usually I'd ask the customer if they cared that I cut a coax so I could reuse the hole to go inside. Only once did they say no, as they wanted to use it to distribute signal through the house. That time was coincidentally the time I hit an electrical wire with my drill bit. Flames shooting out the wall are not very pleasant, even if it is just brief. Luckily the breaker tripped before a house fire started.