reid@pa.dec.com (Brian Reid) (06/02/91)
I'm slightly puzzled by this stuff about how Pac Bell will or won't put in various kinds of wires going to your house. A while ago I wanted Pac Bell to put in a cable to my house. All I had to do was two things: first, I had to ask for it, and second, I had to pay for it. I paid them an installation fee of about $500, and they pulled a 25-pair cable to my house, put a splice in my wire room, put in a thing marked "189 BI-25 protector", which seems to have 25 fuses in it, put in a JC-21X, and punched the cable into the JC-21X for me. I did make one serious mistake in doing this. I had this work done at the same time that I was having some changes made to the four-wire leased lines coming to the house, and I made the mistake of asking the cable installers not to reconnect the old circuits, knowing full well that I was going to have them all taken out the next day. It took me two years to get their paperwork straightened out and to stop being billed for a circuit that wasn't there.