Re:The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
by syshum on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:05AM
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The technology is also more reliable than modern wireless
I remember many times where everything else was out of service except the good old POTS line...
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Re:The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
by jjeaff on Sunday November 10, 2019 @03:16PM
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I grew up in a very wooded area myself. And it was also my experience that when the electricity was out, the phone lines would still tend to work.
Re:The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
by usrusr on Sunday November 10, 2019 @01:35PM
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It's funny how some regions insist on not burying their communication lines. Or maybe funny how others insist on burying. Because like so many things it's a tradeoff, what you win in reliability nines you loose in bandwidth trailing zeros. Upgrading underground infrastructure is so damn expensive.
Re:The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
by BenjiWiebe on Sunday November 10, 2019 @04:40PM
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I live in Central Kansas. In our house there's next to no cell service. We could switch providers, but then we'd be in a dead area every time we drove a few miles. No carrier has good coverage in our area. Without a landline we would even have trouble calling 911. Thankfully POTS is still alive here at least.
Re:The FCC Has Fined Robocallers $208M, Collected $6,790
by Aloha on Sunday November 10, 2019 @02:31AM
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Until I moved to my current locale, I had pretty reliable landline service from century link and frontier, I've not tried to order a land line from AT&T yet, but it's theoretically possible.
I'd love to have a land line but it completely stopped working decades ago. After deregulation, no one was responsible.
Countless attempts to get anyone to fix it were in vain.
This year I saw a thick line completely knocked down by a fallen tree. I called the power company. They said it was a telephone line not a power line. And that there wasn't anyone left for them to contact to get it fixed. Asking around I found it actually didn't matter. No one was actually using it. No one has land lines any more. The technology is obsolete, irrelevant, and should be removed.