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[Discuss] AT&T eliminating copper phone lines
- Subject: [Discuss] AT&T eliminating copper phone lines
- From: dbarrett at blazemonger.com (Daniel Barrett)
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:34:04 -0400
- References: <22746.45853.811210.52054@blazemonger.com> <20170328191723.GW11579@newtao.randomstring.org>
On March 28, 2017, Dan Ritter wrote: >1, 2 and 3 are all variations on 4 [eliminating the landline] Oh god. Does this mean that fiber optic lines, when they replace copper lines in the home, reduce the voice quality to that of a cell phone? (If so, I'm screwed for life. I cannot make out 50% of cell phone conversations, even with hearing aids.) >What does your alarm company recommend? They say they'll work fine over fiber optic lines of the sort that AT&T or Verizon installs. I'm checking on Vonage. (But Vonage has other difficulties, like the fact that the phone lines are in the basement and the FIOS router is on the third floor, so I'd have to hire an electrician to run cables to the Vonage box, and then bring in the alarm company to hook up their stuff.) >What does AT&T say when you say "I have an alarm system that depends >on a POTS line"? "The lines brought to your home MUST be MUST be [sic] converted to fiber. [Otherwise], your AT&T service will be disconnected when the outside facilities in your area are fully migrated from copper to fiber on May 5, 2017." -- Dan Barrett dbarrett at blazemonger.com
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