Re: "Stop putting cabling in easy to reach, easy to breach ducting"
> you could bill SFR for rent.
In the very earliest days of home dial-up, we did just that. ISPs offered local phone numbers. This was actually all re-directed at a regional switch, but the protocol implied they needed a local Point Of Presence to have a local number. Somehow one ISP got our address, offered a monthly rent to put lines on our house. I never knew if they meant to cross-circuit or if it was all tariff-foolery.
But no actual panel or wires ever appeared. They had proposed a yearly contract, and this went on for three and a half years, when they notified us they would end the contract. (Probably about the time everybody was getting AOL diskettes every month.) I pointed to the clause in their words that the deal would go year to year, and they were on the hook for several more months.
Youse guys bury cables?? My TV cable is laid shallower than weed-roots. The POTS line not much deeper. My neighbor's TV cable went out mid-winter (frost-heave can be severe here). The company just laid an orange cable on top of the snow and said they would be back in spring. That was 7 years ago. Even my power lines are not in conduit.