Phone grounding (make me feel good!)

[LarryFine]

Larry- that looks more like a 30s/40s arrester, I have one of those sitting on my mantlepiece .

Here are some more:

 

[hbiss]

Sorry to inject a rant into this, but its amazing to me how, around here, phone companies have totally dropped the ball. Years of neglect, lack of maintenance, lack of upgrades to get into the 21st century for internet capability.....Here its verizon, not sure if they are just letting the system rot away and putting their efforts into their wireless division or what.

I believe they are banking on 5G and satellite delivered cell phone service to be fully deployed. Verizon scrapped their copper and over built with Fios fiber in many areas but it looks like they are not doing much expansion of that either anymore.

-Hal

 

[hbiss]

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Interesting. That's a Western Electric 98A protector on the far left. Those red rods are fuses. They seem to have copper jumpers across them. I guess that's the phone company equivalent of a penny.

-Hal

 

[readydave8]

verizon

substitute "windstream" and my experiences fit your post