One of my pet peeves is seeing overly long aerial "tails" flapping like a flag every time the wind blows. At some point, the cables wrap themselves around the telephone poles and look really ugly.
Why won't lineworkers either open the splice cases and cut the old drops (along with shaking out any garbage that may have gotten inside)...or...cut to within a foot to avoid telephone pole "strangulation"
In my neighborhood, the copper is in poor shape (Verizon technicians have admitted it). The company migrates chronic problem customers to FiOS fiber. With this situation, why not fully cut old drops and be done with it
