“To top it all off, after we switched to Comcast, we told AT&T to take their wires off our property and they said they couldn’t do that because we were no longer a customer! I pointed out that, if I were still a current customer, I wouldn’t want my wires removed. So I ripped their damn plant out myself and, to this day, their coiled-up wire is dangling on the pole behind our house. WORST company ever.”
I hate AT&T with a passion, but Comcast is actually worse. When we switched to DirecTV we (like you) asked Comcast to remove their drop wire. Got the same answer. So I pulled all their OSP from the house and pulled the drop across the street and wrapped it around the pole.
We have AT&T cell phone service (Verison is crap here) but at home the AT&T service suddenly went bad so I checked the cell tower locations and found that there were three nearby and one was only 1,000 ft away. They had changed it’s direction to give better service to another area and they admitted it. So I bought a Wilson repeater which fixed the problem. Now I get a letter from Wilson stating that I have to have AT&T’s “permission” to operate my “ local cell tower.” I hope AT&T understands the words “fat chance.”
While I was a customer of TWC, they ran new cable, but simply laid it on the ground next to my chain-link fence. At the end of the fence in my back yard, they simply ran it up and over the fence, then along the foundation of my house.
I requested they bury the cable for 4 years, and kept being told they'd get around it it. During that time, the cable was cut by lawn mowers at least 7 times, and they had to come out to splice it. The last time they spliced it, they decided to simply run it along the top of the fence in the back yard, but still left it on the ground around my house. I have since sold the house.
Mark
Real aholes.
I have wires from two previous company’s.
I thought about cutting the wires but then the aholes would be hollering “That is our property!!!”
Jackweeds!