Steve wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:17:46 -0800, Ken wrote:
> >
> >
> >"mr.art" wrote:
> >>
> >> USA, Oregon, Portland
> >
> >He mentioned that in his original post, Art.
> >
> > Where I said " I don't know about where you live but here in California..."
> >what meant to imply is I don't know if the laws where you live are the same
> >but here they give you certain rights. I already knew where he lives but not
> >the laws that apply in his home state.
> 
> Here you're not allowd to touch the phone lines, even inside your own building.
> The phone lines belong to the telecos. You can do what you want with the
> power lines, the water and to some extent the gas, but touching the phone lines
> is a big NoNo.  And with laws like this we wonder why BT still have a manopoly.

Here the phone companies own the wires from their main service buiding all
the way to where they enter your building. Any wire inside your building
is now your responisibility to maintain. They will of course repair your
wiringing for you, for a price, or you can do it yourself, or hire an
outside contracter to do it for you. This came from the break up of AT&T
and the Bell Telephone monopoly.

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US West will cover the lines that go from the outside into the main switchbox
in the basement, where you can see the wires as they were installed by
decade. They say it's the building owners responsibity to keep the wires in
good condition from there up to each apartment. I have two phone jacks that
are daisy chained together and they enter the wall in my kitchen, and for the
past two years I can hear my neighbor when he's on the phone. When he gets a
phone call my phone "chirps" and I frequently come home to an answering
maching recording dial tones from it.

I plan on moving soon. I have other problems with the place. Like the hot
water in my bathroom sink turns on then I hear a "clunk" and the water slows
to a trickle. I put up with it because I don't have much of a backbone. The
next tenant will probably raise quite a fuss.

Josh

Ken wrote:

>  I don't know about where you live but here in California it is a law
> that apartment owners MUST keep the telephone wiring inside tenant
> buildings in good working order. Your state may have similar laws
> protecting your rights to reliable telephone service. If you live
> in such a place it might behoove you to point out this fact to your
> slum lord. If you needed medical assistance and could not reach
> help over the phone because the wiring was not in good repair it
> would put your slum lord in a position of liability.
>
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> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.htmlhttp://www.povray.org/links/

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