Long way of saying "Here is an advert for our shop"
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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Influencers exploring their fanbase with whatever bullshit they can turn into merchandise? Say it ain't so!
As an old Bell Labs guy used to say, "There's a lot of wires in wireless" Wireline has higher uptime than wireless, but we gave some up for convince.
Yea, they haven't got long to use those landline phones here in the UK before the copper networks retired unless they use something like this with VoIP which seems to defeat the purpose https://amzn.eu/d/0QhpOk0
My Grandma was concerned about the switch off because she spends most of the day talking to friends on her landline. She has a smartphone but hates talking into it and refused to use any sort of headset or ear buds so I bought one of these old school style handsets for her https://amzn.eu/d/88lwwKA
No, no they’re not. ATT just applied to the state of California so they can quit laying new copper.
Pretty much everywhere with fibre in Australia has had the copper ripped up. You can still get a landline over the fibre network, there’s just a RJ11 port on the network termination device. You can even run a cable from it to one of the old wall jacks and every other one in the house will work. Plug any old landline phone in just fine.
They don't have to apply. They have right of way.
I thought I read yesterday that they had just filed an application to be released from the legal obligation to maintain and update their landline infrastructure in the state.
Not unusual for operators to not pull maintenance on certain parts of plant. This happens when the area that they are serving has had a disaster and net usage has diminished. So, they have to notify the PUC that they are going to delay further work.
Thank you.