its been like 12 day here with out power or land line for phone looks like tomorrow the rest of us up hy 109 will have power. now are telephone from my place north comes from dawson springs. call last weak said it be up tuesday well tuesday came and went called today lady said theyed had been working on it, i told her i had drove to dawson yesterday and line had was still laying across road and no one had even took a look at it. well this evening 3 truck from hopkinville were on there way home guess she must have made a call or two. now my main question i wonder how many of you have land line any more after 11 day i think i can do with out it.only had two message on it sence it went down and thy were family. thy only offer dial up i have wildblue internet. i alway keep it as back up for cell now both were down for couple day cell back up faster then land line. now i know the line crews are doing there best so dont spend lot time whipping on me about work not getting done. of coures if you lived in this end of county you understand how things work and the worker have no control over that.
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Casey in Ky
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AT&T formerly Bellsouth is trying to drive customers away...fact. Contract year and they want things to be bad. At least until after August, then you"ll see a big change in service and prices...huge difference since AT&T took over.
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During the big blackout a few years back, cell phone service here was dead in a matter of minutes, probably due to everyone trying to call at once as much as the power outage. Our land lines were working fine for about another full day.
Really, there's no excuse for either cell or landline phone service to ever be out. Buried phone lines don't get knocked down, cell towers and phone switches with backup generators don't lose power.
Really, there's no excuse for either cell or landline phone service to ever be out. Buried phone lines don't get knocked down, cell towers and phone switches with backup generators don't lose power.
Land line phones can go out in a power outage.
Sure the burried sections will not go down. But if a few big aerial sections go down or a long section of aerial fiber.
Another issue if your out in the sticks. Most xboxes are pair gain systems with battery back up for a power outage. That last about 24 to 36 hrs. After that its wait until the power comes back on.
not a issue if in town. The CO's have big generators.
Sure the burried sections will not go down. But if a few big aerial sections go down or a long section of aerial fiber.
Another issue if your out in the sticks. Most xboxes are pair gain systems with battery back up for a power outage. That last about 24 to 36 hrs. After that its wait until the power comes back on.
not a issue if in town. The CO's have big generators.
Last summer wife's uncle who was an engineer at Corning inc. told me that in ten years telephone land lines will be a thing of the past. Corning invested hundreds of millions of dollars in the development of photonics and fiber optics and built several new manufacturing facilities only to mothball them a few years later when "the market dropped". In reality the big rush is on for everything to go wireless with minimal infrastructure to build and maintain and minimal workforce to look after. Most of all there's no monkeying around if the goverment want's to know who you are talking to, they can just pick your signal out of mid air.
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Where I live the land line is now called the maybe phone system. Maybe it will work and maybe it wont. I have heard the same thing down here about land lines going away.
My grandmother's phone line is down between her house and mine. I called the other day to report it and the nice computer voice said that some one should be here in the next two weeks and if not call back then.
As of last night there was big parts of hwy 56 and just off it that did not have power. We are lucky here at the house, while we live so far back we have to keep our own tom cat, my road is the first 6 meters on the line come'n out of the substation.
Dave
As of last night there was big parts of hwy 56 and just off it that did not have power. We are lucky here at the house, while we live so far back we have to keep our own tom cat, my road is the first 6 meters on the line come'n out of the substation.
Dave
If I did'nt need it for my internet connection I would have gotten rid of the land line long ago. I don't seem to be able to get any high speed intnet at a fair price where I'm located. Anyone who I want or need to talk to knows my cell phone number as I don't usually even pick-up on the land line.
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