In article <653758700.2275.1608968920711.JavaMail.zimbra@baylink.com>, Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
They sure seem ready to take down the oopper. The installer was sad when I told him to leave my six-pair copper cable alone even though nothing is using it now.
Sure; ILECs would *love* to deprovision their copper end networks.
But that's not necessarily a great idea, societally; always-on dialtone (or, at least, dialtone with a much higher reliability than VoN) can be pretty important. My LECs in Florida seem to manage five 9s pretty handily at the station set; betting FiOS isn't managing that. ...
My telco is a family run rural LEC with some quaint ideas. I asked the installer who replaces the backup battery when it wears out. "We do, of course." He seemed to think it was a silly question, was surprised when I told him Verizon felt otherwise. In the 25 years since I've lived here the power has never been out as long as a day so I think a four day battery will give me pretty good reliability. I know my fiber is a straight shot to the CO since I'm only four blocks away but as far as I can tell, unlike the HFC cable plant next to it on the poles, their fiber system doesn't use any powered repeaters. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly