For the 24 plus years i have worked for the local telecom. I was hired in May of 1999 by Bell Atlantic to do installation and repair to homes and businesses. After 10 years of doing that I switched to the Line Dept. My duties included setting and removing poles, hanging new strand, placing new copper and fiber, dealing with emergency calls for broken poles and downed lines. Over the last few years I was involved in the fiber to the home projects and personally worked on 7 different builds in Southwestern Nh and Vermont.