LordMalak
join:2003-07-02
Brazil
| reply to Sly
Re: No surprises
said by Sly  :
Take it with a grain of salt. My cell phone is a lot more problematic than my VoIP line. Some people freak out when they don't have phone service for a minute. I don't know of any phone service that is 100% reliable.
Ever heard of LANDLINE?? |
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Sly
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join:2004-02-20
Johnson City, TN
clubs: | Yea, I used to bend over and take it from Sprint. With the constant AC hum and telemarketer calls twice a week, I had a land line.
No, they are not 100% reliable. In fact, they suck ass. |
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hescominsoon
join:2003-02-18
Brunswick, MD | reply to LordMalak
landline is not 100% reliable. |
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Marilla
I Am My Own Arbiter
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join:2002-12-06
Belpre, OH
| Landline is a good measure more reliable than cell technology, in large part due to requirements such as backup generators at CO's.
A hum on the line isn't an impediment to making a 911 call. Losing DSL Sync, other connection problems (like that hum on the line), someone's router somewhere dying... and many other things, could cause loss of VoIP service.
I seem to recall a day, not so long ago, when power was out in New York City, and to many other people in the North East.. and yet for many, telephone service worked fine.
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Marilla
I Am My Own Arbiter
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join:2002-12-06
Belpre, OH | reply to Sly
AC hum can still be spoken over... say, if you need to dial 911.
Telemarketer calls twice a week? Man.. how did you survive it?  |
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Ben67
join:2000-07-08
Monroe, GA
| reply to LordMalak
said by LordMalak :
Ever heard of LANDLINE??
Ever hear of Alltel? At my prior address my Alltel landline service went down quite often for a while(the SLC/RT would crash leaving the whole area without service). This usually happened on the weekend so they wouldn't fix it till Monday and if Monday was a holiday it would be Tuesday. When I asked them what someone w/o a cellphone should do in an emergency they said they would have to use someone Else's phone that worked. How nice.
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thegoldwater
Thegoldwater
join:2002-03-10
Parkton, MD
| reply to Marilla
Not necessarily. In rural areas like Northern Baltimore County here in the People's Republic of Maryland, Verizon still has 30 and 40 year old copper feeds running down the back roads. During a good rain (and we have had lots of that), the hollow core of the feed gets filled with water in the low parts between poles... the only way for them to fix this is to roll a truck with an air tank they connect to blow the water out.
It was the main reason I ditched the landline.
Besides, phones suck anyway. Too many jackasses in this country feel that my having a phone number gives them the right to bother me. |
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N3OGH
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join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| said by thegoldwater :
Besides, phones suck anyway. Too many jackasses in this country feel that my having a phone number gives them the right to bother me.
AMEN!!!! |
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Sly
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join:2004-02-20
Johnson City, TN
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·Callcentric
 ·Comcast Formerly ..
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It was the same call. It was Sprint calling me 2 times every week to try to sell me new features on my land line. I got so tired of their crap. I used my cell for long distance...
When I switched over to P8, I called Sprint to cancel. When they asked me why, I told them that I had all the features they charge extra for plus unlimited calling US/Canada for $20.55 including taxes. The operator did not believe me and still tried to sell me long distance service. The only long distance I want from them is me, being physically distant from the entire Sprint racket.
There, I can roll my eyes too... |
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Phil
Rojo Sol
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join:2001-06-11
Camarillo, CA
·Verizon FIOS
·DSL EXTREME
| reply to Sly
said by Sly :
Yea, I used to bend over and take it from Sprint. With the constant AC hum and telemarketer calls twice a week, I had a land line.
No, they are not 100% reliable. In fact, they suck ass.
No there about 99.99% reliable. I base this on about 5 years of landline service. As a matter of fact, I can't remember a single time I was unable to use my landline in those 5 years. I took away 0.01% because nothing is perfect.
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tyscoj
join:2002-06-17
Fort Pierce, FL
| reply to Ben67
said by Ben67 :
said by LordMalak :
Ever heard of LANDLINE??
Ever hear of Alltel? At my prior address my Alltel landline service went down quite often for a while(the SLC/RT would crash leaving the whole area without service). This usually happened on the weekend so they wouldn't fix it till Monday and if Monday was a holiday it would be Tuesday. When I asked them what someone w/o a cellphone should do in an emergency they said they would have to use someone Else's phone that worked. How nice.
You should have documented this and taken it to the PUC. There are certain requirements that have to be met by the telephone company, otherwise they start getting fined. In most areas a phone should be fixed within 24 hours...but others may be more lax.
Now that I think of it...Comcast really didnt meet alot of thier MTTR's there either...it was a pain to try to get them to fix a customers phone. |
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