Number PULEAZE! Part Two:

[rp2813]

I'm wondering how AT&T will provide my land line service after I cancel my high speed internet and TV service, which they provide over fiber.  Currently my land line is provisioned over fiber and requires the AC powered fiber gateway to operate, so it's not a true land line at all, though dial tone still comes from the main switching office downtown.

 

I've had it with AT&T's frustrating and annoying TV service, so will be switching to a different provider in a couple of months when my contract is up.  I'll be pushing for a copper pair for my land line.  I want all of their fiber equipment gone!

 

So true about deregulation.  AT&T is nothing but a sloppy sales-focused entity that can't be trusted anymore.  Verizon seems to be even worse.  There are cities all over this nation that regret allowing GM, Firestone and Standard Oil to rip out their trolley systems.  The same will be happening with regard to copper land lines, mark my words.

 

[ea56]

Ralph,

good luck getting AT&T to put your landline service back on a POTS copper wire connection. Back about 5 years ago when they tried to get me to convert over to the UVerse, and I resisted, they told me that eventually, in a very short period of time, everyone on AT&T landlines would be forced to convert to UVerse, as they were going to do away with copper wire POTS, as it was obsolete, according to them.

Thats when I switched to Comcast, and I’ve never regretted this decision. We have everything on the internet with them now, TV, WiFi and VOIP. One bill, that works out to less than it was before with the TV on Comcast and the phone and DSL on AT&T.

We have dependable VOIP, with a battery backup, that provides phone service during a power outage, provided the cable is still up, and the WiFi is lightening fast, and NEVER goes down, unlike the snail like AT&T DSL the was so slow it was like watching paint dry and it was always going down, requiring constant rebooting of the modem and frequent installation of new line filters.

As far as I’m concerned, AT&T can pound sand.

Eddie

 

[cuffs054]

Yep, ATT did it to all of Monticello a few years ago. Switch or do without. I'm running an Ooma for my land line.

 

[gusherb]

If it’s coming out of the Residential Gateway (RG), which is the crappy router they give you, then it’s VoIP and not based out of the local CO. If it’s coming out of the ONT (little white box mounted inside the house or mounted in the NID outside) then it’s fiber based POTS.

In either circumstance I think the phone service will stay, although I seem to recall their system not letting you order Uverse voice without internet so it’s possible they may just cancel it or require it be converted over to POTS.

 

[rp2813]

Mine is fiber-based POTS.  I can use rotary phones with it.  Other non-fiber AT&T U-verse subscribers in my area with VOIP can't use rotary equipment.

 

If I switch to another provider that only offers VOIP, I'll have to invest in a Rotatone device.  If AT&T won't provision POTS over copper, there's no point in staying with them.  I share Eddie's sentiments.

 

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Southwestern Bell 1979

 

 

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American Telephone & Telegraph Co. 1930

 

 

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American Telephone & Telegraph Co. 1932

 

 

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Bell Telephone 1975

 

 

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