[outages] [slightly OT] Verizon Business repairs slowdown???

[Larry Vaden]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Jon Radel <jradel at vantage.com> wrote:
> We're having real trouble getting Verizon Business to pick up routine T1
> outage tickets and actually work them, and the general temperature of the
> techs is frosty.  We've now heard rumors of massive (5 figures) layoffs
> coming down the pike from 2 sources, but nothing firm.  Anybody know if
> they've got a formal work slowdown going on and / or any forecasts as to
> where this is going?

Perhaps unrelated, perhaps not, the following email was just received
from our Verizon salesperson:

"I will be out of the office starting 03/15/2010 and will not return
until 12/31/2010.

Please refer all your future emails to: wholesaleinquiry at verizon.com
or call 877-288-6453"

kind regards/ldv