The green rectangular boxes, about 1 foot or 2 feet high and 2 feet long, are being installed on the strips of ground between the street and sidewalk.

University Drive resident Bernie Goldberg(pic below), who gave a lengthy presentation on his objections to the boxes at a recent township supervisors meeting. “They look like trash cans sitting out in front of your house permanently.”

said by pcme2000 :

Simply get DirecTv instead drive AT&T & Comcast out of your neigborhood!!

said by dadkins :

... I would much rather have a green briefcase or pedestal as opposed to beige refrigerator any day!

said by way2evil :

Oh please, I am sure you would be bitching too if you woke up to one of these boxes on your lawn.

said by jerryjam :

I dont know what brain surgeon made this comment but underground vaults are climate controlled.

said by Rick :

comparing a 1 foot or 2 feet high pedestal that's delivering a real next generation advanced network versus the uverse walk in coolers connecting to this....

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said by way2evil :

Oh please, I am sure you would be bitching too if you woke up to one of these boxes on your lawn.

said by Rick :

comparing a 1 foot or 2 feet high pedestal

said by kwest :

Cry baby people want advanced services but then don't like the equipment that must be placed on the street, just like the cry babies around here want cell phones but don't want cell towers to operate them give me a break!

said by kwest :

Bottom line is the equipment cabinets ARE ON THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY and there is NOTHING no one can do about it, we do not own the right of way the county or city does.

my 2 cents

said by TK Junk Mail :

I know the area well(my sister lives a couple blocks away) and you would never even notice these boxes if you stood 5 feet from them. The landscaping blocks them from view.

said by Sly :

Well actually you may have a point (although worded a little strangely). If you dig deep enough underground you will pretty much encounter the same temperature year round. Once you go a few feet underground the temperature will remain in the 50's or 60's year round.

said by NormanS :

The Comcast boxes I saw in Albany, Oregon, were rather more than 1 foot, or 2 foot high pedestals.

said by kwest :

Bottom line is the equipment cabinets ARE ON THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY and there is NOTHING no one can do about it, we do not own the right of way the county or city does.

said by rahvin112 :

Anything installed below frost depth will maintain a constant temperature

said by irsean :

CEV's are not the same as the boxes this article is discussing. CEV's are for the larger network and these are distribution points. Not the same thing.
Not sure about U-Verse but here at Vzn, our FDH (Fiber Dist Hubs) are anything but environmentally controlled. And the boxes in front of every two or three houses aren't even distribution hubs, they are termination points. Luckily these terminals are water sealed (the actual termination point, not the in-ground box they're in). I regularly have to bail out these boxes because some guy has his sprinklers going off every hour of the day (haven't these people heard of water conservation?).
Luckily, public right of way and "Ingress/Egress" clauses in Property Deeds give utilities the right to put whatever equipment they want in these places. Of course, if AT&T brought the fiber all the way to the house, these big boxes wouldn't even be necessary.

said by jt4 :

sounds like you have never done this work before. you should try it then post you commet and we will see what you say. i bet it would be a little different