I doubt the battery power they supply is the significant reason they want to turn off twisted pair analog phone service. There are other issues at work. See "PSTN Sunset" on google, also this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/att-plan-to-shut-off-public-switched-telephone-network-moves-ahead-at-fcc/ (note this is news from 2014).
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Ken Stephens <[email protected]> wrote: > Be warned that when you switch to fiber and have phone service through > Centurylink, your "land" line will be powered off your house power. One of > the reasons they want you to switch to fiber is that they no longer have to > power your phone. Saves them money in the long run. > > Ken > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Ali Corbin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 7:56 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > 6) If you get fiber be advised that fiber is not as forgiving as >> > copper. A kink in the line and you are dead. I learned this the hard >> > way. But the installer guy who came out to fix it did not put it down >> > as a repair, so it didn't cost me anything. Did I mention that their >> > installers are cool people? >> >> >> The major problem I had with Centurylink was convincing the office that I >> had a problem, and that it was in their wiring on the outside of my house. >> But once I got them convinced they practically threw service people at me. >> >> Well, really, it was one service person who spent multiple hours fiddling >> with the wiring and the box. And then came back, with a crew, the next >> day, ostensibly to verify that everything was still working. But I suspect >> that the real reason was to show a bunch of new guys what had gone wrong >> with the old wiring, and what not to do themselves. >> >> And in the process, at least two of them practically begged me to switch to >> fiber, so that they wouldn't have to maintain the old copper. >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
