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In rural areas, you may not be able to get or keep a POTS / hardline. There's NOAA weather radio towers that are offline (for months now) because AT&T no longer
by h2odragon 3y ago
In rural areas, you may not be able to get or keep a POTS / hardline. There's NOAA weather radio towers that are offline (for months now) because AT&T no longer wants to provide any digital service to them.
Soon, when SIP on customer provided bandwidth has become the norm, AT&T will have finally realized its original dream: being paid for the service of billing people, with no further obligations to do anything in return.
- bookofjoe 3y agoTacit knowledge deficit here: POTS and SIP stand for stuff I'd have to look up.
- h2odragon 3y agoPOTS = "plain old telephone system", two wire analog voice circuits. SiP is "telephones over internet" in intent.
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- toomuchtodo 3y ago> There's NOAA weather radio towers that are offline (for months now) because AT&T no longer wants to provide any digital service to them. Where can I read more about this?
- h2odragon 3y agoThere was a local news story which i can't find a link to about the Vale TN station; the story I heard (from an AT&T guy, fwiw) was that they concluded the ISDN service to it earlier this year because fiber was coming available; but that doesn't light up for another few months yet. Checking https://www.weather.gov/nwr/outages https://www.weather.gov/nwr/outages suggests its up again; I heard this weeks ago, so apparently some resolution was found. Neat fact: that area is served by one of the few local telephone companies never to have been owned by AT&T at all; they still have round can rotary relay boxes on telephone poles out that way. NFI what actual service they have.