Welcome to the club man. Has happened to me. I billed the contractor and after a year he paid me.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Darin Steffl <[email protected]> wrote: > We saw our network go down on one of our grain elevators at 8:15am on > Friday and we called the elevator and asked if anyone was working up there > and they said a contractor for Verizon was there removing old cell > equipment from the tower. I knew at that point they had cut or worse, > removed equipment from the tower as we were down. Me and another tech > arrived by 8:45 and climbed to find our cables snipped and half of our > antennas already taken down. It was also raining which made everything > worse. The climbers there said their boss said take everything down even > though he was there last week taking pictures to survey the site. How they > would mistake our small 2 ft. sectors with their 8 foot sectors is amazing > to me but they said take it all down. There is Verizon, our WISP and a > competitor WISP up there and our equipment in no way looks like cellular > equipment. > > I have not yet contacted the contractor headquarters yet as I wanted to > reach out to the community and see if others have gone through the same > experience and if they are able to bill the company for our emergency > repair of the site. It tooks us 5 hours with two guys to get everything > back online and another 5 hours today with one guy to tidy everything back > up to original condition. We have a contract with the elevator and they > knew we were up there and the contractor did not ask them about other > equipment, they just showed up and said we're taking down their equipment. > > I'm going to put together a bill to send to the contractor and wonder your > opinions on whether they will fight this or just give in and pay the bill > because they didn't do their due diligence in researching who else was on > the site? Thanks for your comments > > > -- > Darin Steffl > Minnesota WiFi > www.mnwifi.com > 507-634-WiFi > <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> Like us on Facebook > <http://www.facebook.com/minnesotawifi> > > _______________________________________________ > Members mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/members > > -- *Alex Phillips* CEO and General Manager RBNS.net HighSpeedLink.net *WISPA.org Board of Directors ** (2011-2016)* *WISPA Vice President (2014-2015)* *FCC Committee Chairman* *540-908-3993*
