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Ran into a new one --- Keptel SNI with security screws/studs so you could not access the telco side. Most only had a can wrench to open. Some telcos used a funny tywrap to secure like a meter clip on electric meters.

KLD.

I'd get a ticket "hears others on line, test OK" or a customer would get billed for calls they didn't make. Pull the drop at the prem and and the heat coils at the CO, take a ballistics test with the KS meter, sure enough,there's a set out there. We called them floaters. Never quite sure what you were going to find-all of the above mentioned places and several more you PBX guys usually didn't go to, like trailer parks, housing tracts with RA terminals, etc. To answer the original question, if I found a drop or cross-connect on a customer's line that wasn't going to that customer's set it got removed.

Yes, but Denis, you were one of the few that cared. It's not like that these days with telcos as we all know. I seriously doubt that any technician (and I use that term loosely) from Verizon would even understand this topic. It's probably the same with all other telcos nationwide.

Hire cheap help.

Make more money.

More angry customers.

Doesn't matter. You have no competition and the local governments are afraid to confront you.

What a country. Looks like the only people who care is the handful of us here.

Oh, I dunno. We had a very helpful Verizon tech out to the Providence office a few months back.


The small basement under the front part of the office floods on a semi-regular basis. Conveniently, this is where some monster 3-phase electrical switchgear is located (former chicken slaughterhouse - the entire warehouse area was a walk-in cooler), plus a couple of NIDs housing the ten incoming lines.

The latest flood was a doozy, submerging the NIDs for the first time in memory. When the water subsided, the electric was repaired and Verizon came in to restore service. I arrived a few days later to replace the cable running to the phone system, and found there were some unfamiliar numbers present in the NIDs.

Long story long, the tech had noticed some faded Sharpie labeling on unused bonding posts, and had helpfully restored all of them! Of course, they belonged to other Verizon customers.

That's a keeper. :rofl:

where i used to work there was this mystery cable running down the center of the shop (i didnt do telecom at the time) the plant was about 1/4 km long. Anyways, the telecom guy one day was asked by facilities to remove the cable, he found a dial tone on 7 lines on the cable. He figured it was just lines that were never removed and got to thier owners premises by other means. The cable ended about 50 feet from the end of the plant and from there there were a couple of 4 pair cables comming out and going out of the building to a pole in the yard. On the pole they connected to MA bells wiring so our guy assumed the tone was comming from there. Anyways to the point. Our telecom guy cut the cable at the closet and pulled it out. The next day the phone company was knocking on our door, they found that the cable going through the plant was serving some small buisinesses in the industrial park behind the plant! when he cut the cable he knocked out thier telephone service. At some point the plant was widened and this cable which had been running on the outside of the plant became inside and thats where the confusion started