"The phone is a remarkably complex, simple device,
and very rarely ever needs repairs, once you fix them." - Dan/Panther
Quote from: TelePlay on April 17, 2024, 04:37:10 PMSomeone could write a book: "101 Ways to Loose a POTS Line"Wow what a hassle.
Here's one, how it happened to me.
AT&T is putting FO in everywhere in my city. AT&T marked their desired path through my back yard utility easement to horizontal bore in a FO conduit.
Underground marking company marked all underground phone, gas and power lines.
Marking was not perfect.
The underground directional boring bit ran into a 50 pair phone cable and as the cable was wrapped around the bit, it pulled the cable out of the pedestal about 4 feet from the bit.
That cable was running to another pedestal about 50 feet away. That pedestal provided copper grid phone service to some 20 homes, including mine.
Service guy came out and ran 8 fifty foot long patch cables to reconnect the pedestals, restored service.
Talked to the technician. He told me they will most likely give buried FO to every home affected at no charge (they are not going to replace the now dead 50 pair cable).
They will install a new FO pedestal, bury a FO cable to my house, install whatever is needed in my basement including a new WiFi/internet/phone modem.
After all is done, POTS won't even be an option for me. The copper grid will be gone from my homes point of view. Will no longer even have a choice to keep copper or switch to FO service.
Have had copper VOIP for 5 years now and my 616 continues to give me rotary dial out abilities. Just no more copper coming into my house since this horizontal boring incident.
Quote from: neondave on March 21, 2024, 12:08:42 PMInteresting , still some landline users out there a few slight diff between 210 / 210M . Wonder where they are made now