Metronet

I can’t speak for their service because I refuse to try it out based on their installation. Like many neighborhoods in Greenwood this summer, Metronet arrived to install fiber optic cables and reak havoc for homeowners. They claim to have put flyers on doors announcing their arrival, but I never saw one. Though the easements for homes is 10 feet from the street curb, it didn’t matter to metronet who drove and even parked heavy machinery all over front lawns for days. Workers threw trash from their lunches into yards, used foul language, and were even caught on film by neighbors throwing mud clods at each other in horseplay. Deep holes were dug and left uncovered and cables were left lying across sidewalks for weeks, tank tread marks from heavy equipment were left on driveways and sidewalks. After our HOA organized a meeting of angry neighbors and contacted the Mayor’s office, metronet sent out supervisors who cleaned up the install crews’ behaviors and the installation from there was without incident (but it shouldn’t have ever been that out of control).
As to cleaning up our destroyed yards… Weeks went by and I finally got fed up and laid top soil and seed. Just as I was getting grass back metronet returned and threw straw all over the lawn, killing it. So I raked up the straw and re-​seeded. I started to get the grass growing again and they sent over a small bull dozer that tore the new grass and even more of the existing sod up. I give up, they undo every attempt I make to fix my property.
Their sales person has aggressively canvassed our neighborhood since the completion of their lines. Though I never saw the «we’re coming» flyer their sales flyers are everywhere. I locked my storm door because I was tired of finding the flyers in there and so they started sticking them up into the siding of the house!
The installation of their lines has been absolute aggravation and opened my eyes to utility easement laws. They have made me question whether I should be living in city limits where personal property rights have so little value.