National = A company that provides nationwide service to a client but has to sub-contract to local interconnects for doing the actual work. Aka as ROA "Rip Off Artists;" DB "Dead Beats" or just plain "Idiots."

Rams head I am guessing is the dead end connection on a pole for the strand. That's what I learned the term meant when I did OSP.

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