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Yes - some of us still only have a landline. There was a brief power outage today. I since tried to speak to two different people (diff. states even) and they could barely hear me. Verizon issue maybe>
well, this is what i learned last month:
landline "lines" are not maintained.
a tech was troubleshooting an AT&T Pad Mounted Transformer (big green box)
so i asked him about our landlines and he answered: "they don't care".
he said almost no maintenance or upgrades have been done while he
has had his (contractor) job. bottom line: according to him,
eventually all will degrade enough to justify removal
at taxpayer expense or just neglect and forget.
There was a rumor flying around in the telecommunications space that had people scrambling and asking, “Are landlines going away on August 2, 2022?” Yes - slowly
FCC issued Order 10-72A1, ending the requirement to provide the landline services. The requirement officially ended on August 2, 2022. It’s only a matter of time before they end the service completely.
Traditional landline service providers are discontinuing their service and forcing customers to transition to internet-based phone service.
There was a rumor flying around in the telecommunications space that had people scrambling and asking, “Are landlines going away on August 2, 2022?” Yes - slowly
FCC issued Order 10-72A1, ending the requirement to provide the landline services. The requirement officially ended on August 2, 2022. It’s only a matter of time before they end the service completely.
Traditional landline service providers are discontinuing their service and forcing customers to transition to internet-based phone service.
My landline is much more reliable than either cell or internet service, and often is the only thing working during a power failure. Regulators need to realize that "one size doesn't fit all" and that in the absence of cell or internet service, their rural communities still need landlines.
No, those rural communities need better access to internet. We shouldn't expect ATT or Frontier, or Hughes or or or.... to maintain 1,000s of miles of copper wires to allow 15% of the nation's population to use landlines.
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Originally Posted by mshultz
2 of my former employers went to internet phone service. There was a degradation in sound quality.
Call me skeptical. We switched to fiber at my job and you cannot tell the difference. And its WAY more reliable then the copper wires were.
We live in an area where the cell service is, at best, seriously erratic with too many hills between us and the towers. I don't expect it to improve for some time. So, we have a land line. It has proven more reliable than our Comcast internet service. I can always count on one of our neighbors who has phone service with Comcast to come over to use our phone because the internet went out.
My landline is much more reliable than either cell or internet service, and often is the only thing working during a power failure. Regulators need to realize that "one size doesn't fit all" and that in the absence of cell or internet service, their rural communities still need landlines.
I've always preferred to have my landline phone as my home phone and use a prepaid cellphone as an extra phone. The appeal of the landline is that the reception is always good and I don't have to keep constantly charging it up.
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