In Australia we would rock up with a carton of beer. If that didn't work we'd find a Telstra tech (our AT&T equiv) and rock up with them (they getting the carton of beer), or someone that once worked for Telstra that is convincing enough (again, carton of beer..)
That's how it works in most places in the world. Unfortunately, both your suggestion and mine are pretty bad ideas in the US. It is a virtual certainty that impersonating an ILEC technician for purposes of infiltrating a transmission facility of some description has some sort of "terrorism" gravitas associated with it in the post-9/11 juridical landscape here. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC Tel : +1 678-954-0670 Direct : +1 678-954-0671 Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/