Trees laying on roadside telephone wires
I have been reporting multiple trees and limbs lying on the roadside telephone wires in my neighborhood since November of 2011. These are not just branches and twigs but entire dead trees and very large branches that have been lying on the wires since our last severe weather in August of 2011. I have reported this to Verizon, Baltimore County, my council representative, the County Executive and the Governor of MD.
I would like to emphasize that NO ONE has corrected the situation. Shall we wait until it snows and then call this an "emergency situation". I am disgusted.
Verizon does not perform any tree removal. Please contact your city government. If the service gets interrupted please let us know so we can get your service back working ASAP.
Anthony_VZ
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Go to Solution.Another thing they dont tell you is that the Openreach modem twinkles like a Christmas tree
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Happy New Year. I'm moving to Costa Rica this month and am wondering if I can just plug my telephone into my ibook g-4 osx 10-4-8 and get internet connection. In other words, is there an internal modem that will convert digital to analog or do i have to by some sort of external device.
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Happy New Year!
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