OT - are there telco lightning protection guidelines?

[Ben Pfaff]

Mike Rambo <mrambo@lsd.k12.mi.us> writes:

> 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.

Your best bet is probably to get phone line surge protectors.  I
don't imagine you have any practical recourse against the phone
company, whether you're in the right or not.  They have more
lawyers than you do.

Homeowner's insurance sometimes covers this sort of thing, BTW.
A friend of mine got his whole computer replaced that way once.
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