Verizon is famous for having crappy outside plant records. For
> example, when I moved here in October, 2004 they swore up and down
> that service was hooked up. Plug in the phone and no dial-tone. No NID > either.
Verizon is a big company that is a hodge podge of companies with very different performance history. You can't generalize. When we added service it took only a day (physical line already there), and about week (wires had to be run, cost $110).
So I open the terminal block, take out the butt set and start dialing
> the ANAC number on every pair. Not only did I find my pair, I found
> the NID for my apartment and the two weren't anywhere near each other,
> nor was the NID connected.
What is "ANAC" and "NID"?