Here in Illinois, threatening to complain to the state utility regulator is not much of a threat. The state can't pay its bills and is in its 3rd year without a budget. Fining telcos for failing to provide service is not at the top of the agenda.
Maybe Utah is different. Oh, and another obstacle to getting a POTS line can be the cost to bury a line to your house, if it's new construction set back several hundred feet from the road. And then bury a new one when somebody oops cuts it. -----Original Message----- From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 11:30 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Elevator phone lines Most customers are within the boundary of a Local Exchange Carrier with a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity issued by the state public utilitity regulators. And, they are typically the COLR or POLR Provider (Carrier) Of Last Resort. Being such they cannot refuse to provide a POTS line. Where was the location that a POLR did not exist? Almost all of Utah has a POLR. The only places open, don't have any people living in them, like out in the desert on BLM land. -----Original Message----- From: Brett A Mansfield Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 10:25 AM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Elevator phone lines They don't require a computer anymore. I have some customers with POTS lines that have had far more issues than any of my magicJack customers. If you can get a POTS line for only $20/mo the that would be great, but this customer didn't have that option. Thank you, Brett A Mansfield > On Feb 23, 2017, at 10:19 AM, Seth Mattinen <se...@rollernet.us> wrote: > >> On 2/23/17 09:11, Chuck McCown wrote: >> I have mixed emotions. If you got stuck in an elevator, bank vault >> or burning building which would you rather have connected, magic jack >> or a good old fashioned POTS line on good copper? > > > Who wouldn't prefer a magicjack connected to a random desktop?
