It may not be just the cost of the fiber repair but reimbursement for loss of revenue while the fiber is down as well. When they roll out the little fiber trailer it's not pretty.

I has someone cut the fiber to our billing office (off-site) once and it was estimated we were loosing around 1,000,000 a day from it being down. Luckily the contractor who cut the fiber had enough insurance to cover the damages.

I have heard of some being a LOT higher than that.

For your cut cable, they may have mercy on you.

Mike Jones
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953