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How would no landlines work for businesses with a dozen lines?
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Good GOD MAN! That brings back a blast from the past! I think? Resistor stripe colors?.....All I remember is the way to remember. Couldn't tell you the values though. The jingle went "Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly".Blue orange green brown slate
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I was travelling at the time, but during the ice storm last winter my kids reported that the POTS landline did not work. We have two direct-wired telephones (one a base station for a cordless system and the other a simple desk phone that I keep for emergency back-up) and neither would get dial tone.
So many trees fell in the Salem area that lines were down all over the place. Both telephone and TV cable lines came down, so it didn't matter what kind of service you had. It took weeks to restore service to everyone.I'd be willing to bet that there was a short or break in the line of some sort because generally the "remotes" will remain more than 8 hours with no AC power.
Convo inbound, I started in 82 down in Fla...Been in the phone biz since 1984. Met the guy that invented VoIP in 1995 in Florida a couple years ago. Really down to Earth guy. I don't see POTS lines going away anytime soon. I've heard it all over the years. "All phones will be wireless by the year 2000, all faxes will be via email too!" Umm, no.
We still have business owners objecting to going to VoIP because they don't want their phone calls 'listened in on and recorded.' That always makes me chuckle. We put in a new VoIP system and then have to tie in lines from the late 1870s.
ALL communications in the US are monitored, everywhere. Analog or IP, doesn't matter. But try convincing a customer of that fact. In fact it is debatable that every (modern-post 2011 or so) mobile phone is listening/reporting all keywords when not in use. Most in the tech side would say yes.
Yep. We're in a bit of a canyon that creates a dead space. You may get a bar if point your phone just right. Climb the ridge, out of the canyon and there is excellent service.By looking at a pic you once posted it appeared you are in the area of Lower Bridge Road/Holmes Road.
If that is the case I am surprised there is no cell service there.
Long story, short. During "springtime" in Montana, the phone boxes in my neighborhood (Bozeman) would be flooded by the melting snow and when inundated with water, there was no 'landline'. This was "pre-cell phones"! Lived in more than a few places with no phone service of any kind. It was peaceful and no tele-marketers!
I still have a wired telephone landline. I almost never use it. I hate giving personal information over the phone, but when I have no choice, I prefer a wired phone that is not broadcasting the conversation over the airwaves. Also, during the ice storm last winter, when the cell towers were overwhelmed, my wired landline still worked.One of my pals from my working days still has wired landline service. He doesn't "do" computers or cable TV. He's one of the very few on his block to yet have it. Whatever carrier that assumed the legacy for this service had to come out to repair it a couple of years ago. The wire from the pole into his house was corroded. The tech was telling him he was the only one nearby getting the service and that the lines were in pretty bad shape.
I recently had a cousin die in Vietnam and my 15 minute call to the embassy was BIG $.My wife's family lives in Singapore and we were using AT&T reach out world plan for more than 20 years. Took that plan off and signed up her cellphone for international calling for an extra $15 month instead. Saves a lot of money since you had to pay for the plan and minutes you used to call Singapore. There were a lot of taxes as well with the AT&T plan.