There's also Sprint's long-haul division, that's neither wireless nor local service (Embarq).
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Reichhart" <timreichh...@hometowncable.net> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 1:37:27 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT sprint ok lets be clear here is it sprint wireless or sprint that centurylink bought? there is 2 different companies here. -----Original Message----- From: "James Howard" < ja...@litewire.net > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" < af@af.afmug.com > Date: 06/12/20 12:14 Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT sprint I think the Sprint guy sounds more like the Crocs….. From: AF [mailto: af-boun...@af.afmug.com ] On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 11:10 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group < af@af.afmug.com > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT sprint Said Pig to Rat. From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 10:02 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT sprint Chuck: What company do you work for? Locate Guy: Sprint. Chuck (now sprinting in circles): OK, what company do you work for? Actually, he's going to need a magenta wifebeater since he'll be working for "New T-Mobile". From: AF < af-boun...@af.afmug.com > On Behalf Of Robert Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 10:47 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT sprint I love it when a plan comes together... Thanks that kind of story makes my day... Feifdoms are a pet peave.. On 6/12/20 8:12 AM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: <blockquote> Working on engineering a new fiber line. Called for locates. Normally they will not do the locates unless you are actually digging. If just engineering they will not even take the dig ticket. So, I always do some form of geo tech bore hole soil sampling etc to get the paint down on the ROW without argument. If I forget to drill the test holes.... well I am getting older and more forgetful. Sprint showed up and said: They have a 2' (both sides, above and below) exclusive zone that we cannot come near nationwide. 4' wide exclusion zone. (I was in a state highway ROW). Told the sprint guy that I doubted they have an exclusive ROW in a public highway ROW. He went ballistic. Said I had messed with the wrong people etc. Got his boss on the phone. I told the boss that I simply did not believe it. I might be proven wrong but generally road ROWs are pretty much the domain of the political entity etc. He said he had fought this battle many times and always won. They have an exclusive easement everywhere in the USA and that their fiber is much more important than everyone else. I said that one thing was certain, one of would be proven wrong. He hung up. I called UDOT. They said, no, nothing special about Sprint. I gave them the contact info for the locator's boss. UDOT called him. He told UDOT that they did indeed have an exclusive easement and the would sue the state of Utah if it is not honored. UDOT researched it. Nope. Nothing more than a permit. Just like what Chuck has. Nothing special about Sprint. They said that they were going to straighten this out with the AGs office. Then I discover that UDOT has very recently given this highway to the county. County engineer says Sprint has nothing, they are in trespass everywhere they are in the county. So, out plowing cable and the Sprint locator showed up. Boxer shorts, flip flops, wife beater. Starts running his mouth to my crew about Chuck pissed off the wrong guys and that he is going to be tied up in federal court for the next 10 years etc. Supervisor threw him off the job site. No hard hat, no orange vest, no hard soled shoes. Supervisor called me and said to expect a call from Sprint. I called his boss instead. Told him that they had failed to mark 1/3 of the ROW and that the guy needs to conform to UDOT safety standards to be out there working. And that as far as suing me in federal courth, UDOT says I am good to go. "So tell your guy to shut the F*** up and just do his job. " This time sprint boss was meek and mild and offered to cooperate any way possible. I actually apologized for the harsh words, but was expecting the same attitude as before. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com Total Control Panel Login To: ja...@litewire.net From: af-boun...@af.afmug.com You received this message because the domain afmug.com is on your allow list. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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