Re: Verizon, FiOS, and CLEC/UNE orders (was AT&T diversity)

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () seastrom com>

> I found scrap pricing for "telco" (obviously the contaminant ratios
> out there are different for different types of copper) at $1.20/pound,
> which may or may not be current, but if you figure a single pair of
> #24 is probably around 4 pounds per 1000 feet scrap weight... if an
> average loop is, say, 5000 feet, you can see where there is
> substantial incentive to recycle all the 600 pair that you have lying
> around.

That's relatively current.  I recycled about 105 ft of 25pr I pulled out
on a cabling job 3 or 4 months ago, and I think I got $130 for it.

But remember: much to most telco trunk cable is icky-pic, and direct-burial; 
both of those change the effectiveness equation *markedly*.

Cheers,
-- jra
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