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Re: Qwest to pay $350 million for fiber cut( Re: PSINet outage?)

  • From: Dan Hollis
  • Date: Wed Nov 15 19:07:32 2000 
On 15 Nov 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
> In Austin a jury ordered Qwest to pay over $350 million to AT&T for
> repeatedly cutting a fiber optic line.

Perhaps a law could cover this -- a baseline fine for cutting a cable, and
each repeat cut triples the fine. Telcos will be complacent only as far as
their pocketbook will let them be.

-Dan