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murst[/url]":288sdus4]Honestly, I can understand why Comcast and ATT would be a little nervous about having a third party work on their lines.

While there are absolutely reasonable concerns to be had regarding this, if someone is properly licensed and insured then the concern is mitigated. As an IT consultant who handles cross connects for my clients, I've dealt with a number of issues over the years where some incompetent asshat screwed things up. In almost every case, though, it was an unlicensed incompetent asshat. The sole case where it wasn't was simple carelessness by none other than an telecom company technician (not a subcontractor, either, but an actual employee).

Frankly, mistakes can happen and that's why insurance exists. Now, if Google were asking to have unqualified workers doing this, I'd be all for putting a stop to that. Nothing I can find, however, indicates they're asking for anything like that. Quite honestly, a single tech reworking the lines actually reduces the problems over time since you're generally able to fix the snafus that happen when you're forced to work around the issues caused by employees of three other companies