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To: George T. Santamaria who wrote (35203)	2/17/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 61433

A telco has to install and maintain a tw pr of wire for each cust all of the way to his exchange. Those big, thick black telephone cables that you see on poles have hundreds of twisted pair in each and there are numerous junctions that have to be spliced by hand over the route from the exchange to the customer's premises. Every time a car clips a pole or a manhole gets flooded and service is disabled, much of that hand labor has to be redone. Most of that infrastructure already exists but it is aging and it will someday have to be replaced at today's union labor costs. Much of the work in maintaining telco tw pr just goes into manually checking and rechecking the physical routing of a twisted pair through various junction boxes, manholes and cross-connects. George, You have a lot of good information in this post. Much of which I did not know. Do you believe the telcos will stay with the old twisted pairs far into the future? The constant repairs seem as though it will not be cost effective. Glenn

To: George T. Santamaria who wrote (35203)	2/17/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: blankmind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

splitterless adsl.