Re: [OT] Tragedy, narrowly averted

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 18:35:07 +0000, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 15:40:39 +0000, dsi1 wrote:

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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!
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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.
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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.

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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.