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From: dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1)
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Subject: Re: [OT] Tragedy, narrowly averted
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2025 20:28:23 +0000
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 19:45:17 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 19:09:34 +0000, dsi1 wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 18:35:07 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 15:40:39 +0000, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One of my clients has a POTS telephone that will randomly drop signal so
>>>> she can't understand the person she's talking to. The telephone company
>>>> will just shrug and say they don't know what's the problem and they
>>>> can't do anything about it. They want her to upgrade her service. I'm
>>>> not sure why she doesn't surrender and let the system have its way with
>>>> her. It's 2025 and we don't need no copper wire no more!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I was on POTS and then I noticed was not receiving a.n.y.
>>> phone calls.  That was actually nice, but then family and
>>> friends were trying to reach me.  I was still able to make
>>> outgoing calls though.
>>>
>>> AT&T came out and wiring on pole was just in tatters.  If
>>> I wanted to receive calls then I'd have to convert to digital.
>>> Digital is ok, but if power goes out, so does the phone, so
>>> does the internet and of course anything electrical in the
>>> house.  A few annoying glitches such as having to have the
>>> system reset does not improve my opinion of digital service.
>>> Service techs 'unplugging' me at the junction box is annoying
>>> as well.
>>
>> Sending analog signals through copper wires goes back to the earliest
>> days of telecommunications. It's like piston engines had their start
>> with bicycles and steam locomotives. People will scarcely believe that
>> we used such things in 2025.
>>
>>
> But those signals through copper wiring r.a.r.e.l.y. failed
> unlike the new, bright, and shiny digital service.  Even with
> a cell phone as a backup system or you only phone you have to
> scramble around to find a place to charge THAT if you don't
> have a USB port in your car when power is lost.

A hardwired connection would be pretty darn reliable but it's
impractical. What are the chances that your hardwired copper connection
on your end will be 100% analog to who you're trying to reach? In the
future, that would be unlikely.

In the future, charging a cell phone might not be a problem - you just
plug your phone into your electric car.

When the electricity went down in Hawaii due to high winds, the cell
phones worked for about a day and a half - until the cell towers drained
all their batteries. In the future, the US will have a huge reserve of
stored electricity in millions of electric cars. We'll be better
prepared for power outages.