Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:52:48 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: iPhone battery replacement Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 08:52:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 32 X-Trace: sv3-cP6URONh+NFeACY4QWALtMwX/v0BHvII9EKgrEO5p3ocgT8lxT8VJ7XGf7dGzI5cqvW+7GgQf7p9Ty7!GCASTHx2Jo4ekuP154o+Bu0/Aw4YuQ+D6qbZGJLZDZzYbO41W3tMClLIM9vDhcQ648xJlpmQA4iK!XyYCLA== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2187 On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 22:34:15 -0700, Don Y wrote: >On 6/5/2024 8:29 PM, Sylvia Else wrote: >> On 02-June-24 5:51 am, Don Y wrote: >> >>> (sigh)  The land line was SO much better (for our uses).  But, they just >>> aren't maintaining the (below grade) copper any more. >> >> Subscribe to a VOIP service? > >Only POTS has (had?) mandated levels of service. > >VoIP over DSL leaves you with the availability of the DSL link >to worry about. > >VoIP over cable, same difference. > >All carriers are vulnerable -- and to differing sorts of problems >(with differing sorts of motivations to fix them!) > >It is amusing that the real "asset" that TPC has is the wire in >the ground. Yet (here), they seem to treat it with disdain... > We dumped the expensive AT&T POTS and went with the "free" cable telephone service. The cable phone thing works when it rains, which the AT&T line didn't. Of course we unplug the phones most of the time, to stop all of the spam calls.