Re: [OT] Tragedy, narrowly averted

On 2/6/2025 10:40 AM, 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 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.
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.