OT - are there telco lightning protection guidelines?

[Mike Rambo]

I've had now either 4 or 5 modems, a motherboard, a sound card, 3
answering machines, and my phone damaged over the last 4 or 5 years or
so. All the telco ever says is it has to be the incoming power supply.
They ignore the fact that the damage has _always_ been on the telephone
interface of the device in question. I have never had a failure in any
power supply circuit of the device in question and have never had a
device fail that did not have a telephone line attached.

While I can generally repair the answering machine and telephone, smoked
motherboards and modems are usually a different story. Besides I'm
getting plain sick of doing the work.

Does anyone know if there are any protections, minimal or otherwise,
that telco's are required to adhere to in providing service?


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Mike Rambo
mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us