On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 03:34:04PM -0400, Daniel Barrett wrote: > 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.)
No, it means that you will no longer have a roughly 64Kb/s analog connection to your local phone switch. Because it's no longer analog, a digital adapter at your house needs to be involved -- and it needs power. Power which will not be available over the phone line. If your house power goes out, so does your phone. As I said, VOIP quality *can* be better than POTS. (But that's not the way to bet.) > >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." Wow, that's nice of them. Why are they charging you $100/month for that? They should have an obligation to replace your copper with fiber at the same cost. I wonder if there's some fine print available that they are carefully not drawing to your attention. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
