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I hope besides appealling the verdict, Qwest considers revamping its contractor hiring, training and oversight practices. Reporting on the Qwest/AT&T fiber lawsuit, Newsbytes had this paragraph. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/00/158214.html > But it wasn't three outages that bugged the jury. What they didn't > like, one juror said, was Qwest's attitude, according to the Austin > American-Statesman. Attorney Joe Latting, who represented AT&T, said > a Qwest supervisor testified at trial, "We just hire these people > from the neck down," the paper said. AT&T had accused Qwest of hiring > unqualified personnel. Here was my message on Qwest's fiber trenching operations last year. >Subject: Call for Qwest to conduct a training stand-down >From: Sean Donelan <[email protected]> >Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 23:48:22 -0500 >Delivered-To: [email protected] >Sender: [email protected] > >I'm seeing a disturbing pattern develop. Qwest contractors seem to be >involved in an unusual number of cases of damaging other providers >fiber. I understand that everyone makes mistakes, and a wide-variety of >other equipment operators have caused many fiber cuts. But Qwest's name >seems to show up with unusual frequency in the last year. Here are the >ones I found in my notes. > >Milwaukee-to-Chicago May 4, 1999 >Smyrna, GA March 11, 1999 >Gurnee, IL November 19, 1998 (drilled fiber three times over > a mile) > >Anyone have notes about others? I have a vague recollection of a couple >of more, but couldn't find them in my notes. > >I don't know who Qwest is hiring to bury its fiber, but I would like >to call on Qwest to conduct an immediate stand-down until it can review >its fiber installation practices, training and supervision with its >contractors. Including review of safe digging/drilling practices around >other providers' fiber. >-- >Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO > Affiliation given for identification not representation
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