When I was a Qwest Install Manager, I had a folder that I called, "Never Gonna Happen". Mostly very rural areas with zero facilities yet the sales department were very optimistic.
The best one that comes to mind was a company called Austin Powder. They make explosives so they tend to locate their facilities WAY out in the middle of nowhere. "A T-1 out in the desert, 50 miles from any phone line? SURE!" Bob- -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 6:20 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] What if you can't get a T3? In my previous life as an AT&T Cellular switch manager, we had hundreds of T1's & T3's ordered that never came in - yes, I mean never. And we practically had a blank check! -RickG On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Kristian Hoffmann <kh...@fire2wire.com> wrote: > After about a year of getting the same response from AT&T after multiple > order requests at different locations across our network, the guy in > charge of building out fiber for the region called and said "what in the > world are you guys doing?!?" He ended up giving us the location of a > few fiber terminals in the area. We found the ones closest to our > network, made an agreement with a tenant nearby, and did a wireless PtP > to connect it to our network. > > Moral of the story, we were shooting in the dark until we had an "in" in > the right department at AT&T. > > On a related note, does anyone have an experience with Charter's fiber > services? > > > -- > Kristian Hoffmann > System Administrator > kh...@fire2wire.com > http://www.fire2wire.com > > Office - 209-543-1800 | Fax - 209-545-1469 | Toll Free - 800-905-FIRE > > > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 22:33 -0500, Roger Howard wrote: >> Quick alert to those who are not aware... back when I was running my >> business on T1 lines, I just assumed that when I was ready, I could >> order a T3 and upgrade my bandwidth. Not so. >> >> Just because you can get a T1 doesn't mean you can get a T3 without >> huge buildout costs. I was quoted $400,000 dollars to upgrade to a T3. >> I managed to get around it because otherwise AT&T would have had to >> install a high count copper line down my road to be able to keep >> offering POTS service here, so I got lucky, and had a free install. >> But you may not be that fortunate. >> >> I just thought if I posted this, it might give some people a heads up >> to start planning for more bandwidth when you're coming close to >> needing t3 type capacity. >> >> Thanks, >> Roger >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
