On Thu, 13 Feb 2025, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
OK so then the Ziply 5th generation modem is basically doing exactly the same thing that a Vonage or Ooma box would be doing - it's converting a POTS phone into a VoIP phone. So it's essentially a VoIP phone line you are paying for.
Ted, Yep.
Is Ziply charging you a $15 month fee for the box rental and a second fee (maybe $15 maybe something else) for the phone line itself? Or is it just 1 fee?
One fee for all.
What is interest to me on all of this is that my understanding is that the ONT itself has a RJ11 port that can act as a "POTS" line.
Could be. While I questioned the techs who installed the fiber and transitioned the phone I don't recall the topics.
What it appears to me, is that Ziply is sidestepping the PUC tariffs which require $40 for a residential subscriber POTS line by simply designating it as a VoIP line and instead of terminating the POTS line on the ONT they are terminating it on a "next generation router" that is plugged into the ONT. Then they are charging some less-than-$40 fee for the POTS line
Is that what's going on?
Could be. I didn't question all the details. Rich
