[ale] isp questions

[Derek Atkins]

On Tue, June 16, 2020 4:39 pm, Alex Carver wrote:
>
> If I can wait a bit longer they may have to upgrade the neighborhood on
> their dime instead of mine.  Right now the copper system is very old and
> deteriorating.  I've had to have the line crew out twice because the
> pair I was on had degraded.  On the last visit the crew told me that the
> neighborhood only had two spare pairs, all the others were in use.
> Because of the two calls the two spares are gone and we're now with zero
> spares.  They told me one more outage would force them to replace
> everything because they would not have the spares.  So we'll see what
> happens.
>

Sounds like they just told you how to force their hand!!!

-derek

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