Gravis Wrote:
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> ffxn8v Wrote:
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> > BTW, FIOS is coming to the western end of Burke
> in
> > the next couple of months. March is what I
> heard
> > ;-)
>
> they are REALLY dragging their feet on putting in
> the fiber cable. seems to me that hiring more
> contractors to install it would be a good idea. i
> would get it but it's been like three years and
> it's STILL not in my neighborhood.
They need to be careful about that. They got into a shitload of trouble two years ago when they were running roughshod all over Vienna and Oakton doing their FIOS installs. They were hitting gas lines, lawn sprinkler systems, irrigation lines, tearing up driveways, and generally making a mess of the areas where they were digging. In one case, IIRC, they hit some family's undergrond power line and the strike nearly burned the house to the ground. Something like $200,000 in damage from what I had heard.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091801471_pf.html