Re: [OT] Tragedy, narrowly averted

On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 2:01:45 +0000, Michael Trew wrote:

On 2/6/2025 10:40 AM, 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 received a letter in the mail a few weeks ago "about my phone
service".  I still have a traditional land line with unlimited local
calling.  Uh oh, looks official...  They said that, pending legislation,
they are "grandfathering" analog phone service in a number of mid-west
states and beyond.  I can keep my phone line as-is, but I guess they
won't be selling phone service to new customers.
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My guess, after it's no longer regulated, they'll tell me to go pound
salt if I call and say there's an issue with static on the line.  They
probably plan to let the existing service lines rot into the ground.
Luckily, my phone works fine, for now.  I'll be sad when I can no longer
use my harvest gold rotary wall phone.

I used to dial numbers by tapping on the phone cradle button. Evidently,
it was fun. Those old phone receivers had a funny phone plastic smell to
them. I used to like the phones with the extra long cords. The phones we
had were light grey or pale blue. They never came in groovy colors like
harvest gold. That's about all I can remember about those things.
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