[Boatanchors] Short Wave Broadcast Folks:

[W4AWM at aol.com]

You CAN fight the phone company if you don't want FIOS installed. It will  
eventually happen, but even though they have tried to force me off of 
copper, I  stuck to my guns and still have it.  The only way it will happen at my 
QTH  is when all the neighbors loose their copper, too.  Check with your 
County  and State consumer rights groups to see what their rules state.  
Remember,  copper is regulated, FIOS is not, depending on your consumer rules.Once 
you have  FIOS installed, you will be bombarded with sales folks tying to 
sell you  Internet and TV.
 
My copper has stayed up at times when the neighbors have lost their FIOS  
and have actually knocked on my door asking to use my copper phone. FIOS 
folks  will tell you anything to get you to sign up.  By the way, they usually  
bury the fiber line about 3 inches deep. If you have your lawn aerated, 
chances  are that the fiver line will get chopped in one or more places. Even if 
you have  MISS UTILITY mark the line, you will have a strip of grass that 
is sickly  compared to the rest of your lawn where the grounds folks stay 
away from the  marked line.  The FIOS folks will be happy to put your line in 
conduit  or bury it the standard 18 inches for other utilities if you have 
the excavation  done at your expense.
 
73,
 
John, W4AWM
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/16/2014 2:10:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rbethman at comcast.net writes:

I just  went through having been taken off POTS.

It isn't correct to say that  if the power goes out that you lose signal!

When the fiber optic was  installed, it also comes with a float charger 
and a battery that will last  for about 8 hours.

Bob - N0DGN



On 4/16/2014 12:22 PM,  Rob Atkinson wrote:
> They ARE getting rid of them. AT&T has made no  secret of their long 
> term goal to eliminate POTS. They want everyone  on Uverse or whatever 
> the internet phone system is, and they are  pursuing that goal state by 
> state with lobbying to change laws. It is  only a matter of time before 
> you will get a letter offering options  and POTS won't be one of them. 
> You may have a few years but  eventually anyone still on the copper 
> line will be forced to give it  up. They say it is cost and economics 
> but what they don't say is that  the regulations governing the 
> provision of phone service are MUCH  stricter and favorable to 
> consumers with POTS. And of course they  don't say that when your power 
> goes off, the good old twisted pair  still works, if you have an old 
> style phone, whereas that gee whiz  new digital internet phone will 
> not. 73 Rob K5UJ 
>  ______________________________________________________________ 
>  Boatanchors mailing list Home: 
>  http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors Help: 
>  http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: 
>  mailto:Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net List Administrator: Duane Fischer, 
>  W8DBF ** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com ** This list hosted by: 
>  http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: 
>  http://www.qsl.net/donate.html  

______________________________________________________________
Boatanchors  mailing list
Home:  http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/boatanchors
Help:  http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post:  mailto:Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net

List Administrator: Duane Fischer,  W8DBF
** For Assistance: dfischer at usol.com **


This list  hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list:  http://www.qsl.net/donate.html