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On Wed, 5 Jun 2024 22:34:15 -0700, Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid>
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.