SteveB wrote:
My excellent track hoe operator cut my phone cable. He called a buddy who
works for the phone company, and he says the phone company charges $300 to
come fix it. It is a copper shielded 4 line wire. It has some goo on the
inside. It is a buried line not in a conduit.

Does the price seem high? I know I could splice the wires, but a ten foot
section was just destroyed, and I don't have any of that specialized wire.
And then there's the issue of weather and water.

What would you do?

Steve


What did the phone company actually say? I'll bet if you had the trench
open and ready to go the cost would be less.

You can buy proper splice kits and cable at a real supply house if you
were going to do it yourself.