Blowing Out The Phone Lines?
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From: hallerb on 7 Apr 2010 08:41 > I for one will be sticking with traditional phone lines and dialup service > as long as they continue to be offered. I prefer phone service that is > actually reliable and where I don't need new phones every other year. > I use 40-50 year old Western Electric phones on a daily basis that > still work perfectly. �(Also I am not willing to pay for broadband, > it's just not worth anything to me.) > > -- > � Roger Blake DONT GET FIOS phone, I had troubles for TWO MONTHS, which effected everyone in our central office, every 12th call was noisey from a bad router in our central office. It took 2 months, including calling every business day for 3 weeks and esclating to the presidents office TWICE, to get the stupid phone fixed. meanwhile copper is still highly reliable and robust, and gets fixed fast if it has a problem
From: keith on 7 Apr 2010 10:28 On Apr 7, 5:03 am, Roger Blake <rogbl...(a)iname.invalid> wrote: > On 2010-04-06, sligoNoSPAM...(a)hotmail.com <sligoNoSPAM...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > > What are phone lines? > > The things that you attach a modem to for connecting to the internet. Haven't done that (except in *$%& hotel rooms) for at least a decade. > I for one will be sticking with traditional phone lines and dialup service > as long as they continue to be offered. I prefer phone service that is > actually reliable and where I don't need new phones every other year. > I use 40-50 year old Western Electric phones on a daily basis that > still work perfectly. (Also I am not willing to pay for broadband, > it's just not worth anything to me.) We haven't used a land line for six or seven years. Cell phones were cheaper and now we're used to them. I really don't much care about replacing hardware. It's cheap. [*] we had one with no phone connected when we first moved here because DSL required it, or at least they implied it did. > -- > Roger Blake > (Change "invalid" to "com" for email. Google Groups killfiled due to spam.) > "Obama dozed while people froze."
From: SMS on 7 Apr 2010 13:13 On 06/04/10 10:47 AM, Roy wrote: > On Apr 6, 11:46 am, llort<llor...(a)nope.net> wrote: >> Today I received a call from the telephone company instructing me >> that they would be blowing out the phone lines Friday and that I >> should wrap each of my phones in a plastic bag so that the debris >> doesn't scatter around the house. >> >> I've never heard of this before and am not sure what kind of bag I >> should use? >> Also will the phone ring or something when they are finished? >> >> No wonder the land line companies are losing business to cell >> phones. With ancient technology that needs regular purging it's a >> miracle that it works at all. > > == > You're five days late on this posting. > == More like 50 years late.
From: RonB on 7 Apr 2010 13:33 On Apr 6, 12:46 pm, llort <llor...(a)nope.net> wrote: > Today I received a call from the telephone company instructing me > that they would be blowing out the phone lines Friday and that I > should wrap each of my phones in a plastic bag so that the debris > doesn't scatter around the house. > > I've never heard of this before and am not sure what kind of bag I > should use? > Also will the phone ring or something when they are finished? > > No wonder the land line companies are losing business to cell > phones. With ancient technology that needs regular purging it's a > miracle that it works at all. Lord, why does this remind me of Prince Albert in a can?
From: philo on 7 Apr 2010 21:03
dadiOH wrote: > llort wrote: >> Today I received a call from the telephone company instructing me >> that they would be blowing out the phone lines Friday and that I >> should wrap each of my phones in a plastic bag so that the debris >> doesn't scatter around the house. >> >> I've never heard of this before and am not sure what kind of bag I >> should use? >> Also will the phone ring or something when they are finished? >> >> No wonder the land line companies are losing business to cell >> phones. With ancient technology that needs regular purging it's a >> miracle that it works at all. > > Jeez, you must be young...I first heard that 65 years ago. > Yeah but back then they did have to blow out the phone lines <G> |