Ever since they switched my house phone over to a modem run off the internet, service has been very unreliable. Of course, when the power goes out, so does my phone. But the modem phone goes down about every two months. This time around it did not work for a whole week! And I don’t have a cell phone.
Just like AT&T, WOW is the last company you will ever catch answering the phone promptly. If I even had a phone at the house to call them when it is down. It is about a 45 minute wait to talk to someone.
With my old copper line land phones, I virtually never lost phone service. Sure do miss it!
Yep, and they are expensive too! My sister has one but will not admit how much it costs. Mama left it behind and sister just keeps it…
Back in 2018, I had a wireless ISP because the location was not covered by any decent service. That ISP lost their “tower” because the radio link on it died, and they fired long-time customer me rather than replace the radio. In the couple of months still there I tried to use dial up (yes it was available) but the line was so noisy that one could barely collect plain old email. A few years earlier we were using dial up for our connection and it was usable.
That location was “served” by Frontier which has a lot of rural coverage sloughed off by GTE/Verizon. They did not maintain it. So fortunate to find a place connected by Commie Cast.
I also find my voip numbers to not always work, even though the connection is solid.
Of course it exists. We have a land line phone because there is no cell signal at our house. I recall reading that 15-20% of people live without a cell signal. Our problem is geologic, too many hills and curves.
And the phone runs off old-fashioned lines with 4 copper wires that still give phone service when your electricity goes out? See, we have underground utilities and those sorts of wires do not even come into our house. The house was built 20 years ago.
OK, so he gets his internet from old-fashioned copper wires like I used to at my old house. Trouble is I don’t think they run such lines to new neighborhoods anymore.
Wow, I am envious. My old house had one phone jack in the hall, which was typical. But it was easy to splice wires from a junction box in the basement and install phone outlets all over the house. When an ice storm took our power down, I still had phone service.
Like I said, we don’t trust Comcast with all of our communications. The service is simply not as reliable as the old fashioned land line. Just this morning, service was erratic for a couple of hours. Far too often, it has been out much of the day. If we had a cell via internet, we couldn’t even contact Comcast to fond out what was happening.
I know very few people that have a landline now. Some with small businesses feel they still need a LL, usually those that have been around awhile and customers expect to call that familiar #. But I see plenty of tradesmen who have their number plastered on the side of their work van and you can tell it’s a cell number.
A lot of older people still have POTS. I have a VoIP line only because it’s free, we have the ringer turned way low and I don’t think we’ve answered it in over a year. My wife will check the messages once a week or so.