The industry started phasing out lead in the 1950s, but the WSJ said it found evidence of more than 2,000 lead-covered cables and said there “are likely far more throughout the country.”
Fan-fucking-tastic. Y’all excited to bail out the telcos again?
But how can it be that there are still lead-covered cables everywhere? We already paid them billions of dollars in subsidies to rip out the plain old telephone cables in favor of fiber several times now. They would never just pocket those subsidies instead of actually modernizing the network! \s