Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: smk@attunix.att.com (S M Krieger) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: More About NJ Sabotage Message-ID:Date: 13 Aug 89 16:02:48 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Summit NJ Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 294, message 8 of 10 In article , msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: > In article bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry > Shein) writes: > > > How do you even know there was *any* sabotage? Because some phone > > service got disrupted and the phone co blamed it on the strikers? > > Maybe, maybe not. > All I know is that my daughter's phone line went dead (not even any power to the phone) last Sunday, she got service restored Monday afternoon, and for about three days, there was work going on at a cross-connection box in New Providence, NJ about 0.9 miles away from my home. And, unless it's really media manipulation, one of the "incidents" that the Newark Star Ledger reported was damage to a telephone box in New Providence that affected 400 subscribers. -- Stan Krieger Summit, NJ ...!att!attunix!smk