AT&T makes San Diego Fire victims pay for destroyed $300 SAT receiver (Home burned to ground)

KFMB Newscast Video via You Tube ^ | October 24, 2007

[AFreeBird]

Another item is the "D-mark" ~ the point in/on the property where AT&T's responsibility ends and the property owner's begins. This is a standard item in utilities.

I think AT&T invented the concept more than a century ago.

Um actually, for Ma Bell, back in the old monopoly days, that wasn't true. The wire, the phones (which were "The Property of the Bell System"); if you had a problem with any of it, Ma fixed it.

My house (built in 62~63) does not have a D-Mark panel outside like most homes built since 84. In fact, an eight wire cable comes into the house and is connected to the house wiring with a couple of wing-nut posts nailed into a floor joist. It was the break up that created the D-Mark panel that separated the Telco's responsibility and yours. That's why they had to go with their "Linebacker" program if you wanted the wiring in your house covered.

[AFreeBird]

Dish doesn't go out during a heavy rain storm. It will however go out if there is a T-Storm cell directly between the sat and your dish. How often that happens will depend on the weather patterns in your area. Cable does have a fatter broadband pipe for internet, but it is $45 a month on top of "basic cable". AT&T's DSL pipe isn't as fat, and depends on distance from the CO, but it is cheaper. I think SBC err at&t has (if they're smart) been busy running fiber. I know the old Ma Bell had lots of dark fiber it laid for future expansion.

Where I live though, I get more cable outages than my friend does Dish outages.

[muawiyah]

The D-mark had to have been invented in the days when there were a gazillion telephone operating companies ~ AT&T arose out of an effort to "standardize" service through creation of single ownership.

Also, AT&T service frequently ended at the inside or outside wall in a government installation.