When my neighborhood was finally wired for real fiber, I canned my copper-pair landline and moved entirely to VoIP. Through the magic of number portability I kept my ages old phone number as the primary VoIP number.
It's all very amazing now, with multiple simultaneous calls in and out, call-screening, voicemail, and all kinds of office PBX features. My old copper based POTS phones are all still hooked up by way of ATAs and I have a refurb multi line Cisco VoIP office phone on my desk. The best part? The telco was charging me over $60 Canadian per month for that plain vanilla no-frills landline, with no LD plan. Now I get a year of world-wide calling and all the other features for under forty bucks. I do have a bunch of UPS A/C battery backups to keep the networking gear alive in case of power failures. We get brief A/C hiccups fairly often around here. But the phone system is at least as reliable as it used to be in the old POTS copper pair days. On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 1:16 PM Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > > > On Nov 11, 2020, at 6:22 AM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > > > Here is mine -- I could still use it, but the line goes through my internet > > server.. the actual ancient landline cables in my neighborhood failed more > > and more often . > > Now this one is just decor. > > I was bummed when I had to drop my landline. Not only had the number been a > way to reach me since 1973, but it was far more reliable than the power > around here. > > > > > https://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Stuff-to-show-PDML-for-various/n-vWHWf/i-RkM6bfH/A > > > > ann > > > > -- > > ann sanfedele photography > > https://annsan.smugmug.com > > https://www.cafepress.com/+ann-sanfedele+gifts > > https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/annsan > > https://www.createphotocalendars.com/Shop/annsanfedelecalendarsandbooks > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML@pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
