State of the Phones

Yeah but via satellite or fixed wireless, not the phone line, and only satellite where I am.

The 700MHz band seems to be useless here anyway, since the phones that support it work even worse. New modems are too limited anyway since none of them support AT commands anymore, so you're stuck with some dopey web interface.

Computer Nerd Kev snipped-for-privacy@telling.you.invalid> wrote

Still what the phone service is provided over if you still want one

Fantasy

Wrong with wifi calling

thats right, but its deemed internally as unstable for voip hence why rural folks get internet from skymuster or LTE/wireless but landline via copper still ofr phone calls, come on roddles, you know this already.

noel snipped-for-privacy@invalid.lan wrote

Bullshit

That last is bullshit

I know you don't have a clue and that voip is fine over LTE and wireless

We can see that you did you pathetic excuse for a bullshit artist

You are the one that needs to do that

Which lasted a week - dead again today (just a hiss, not even a "boop, boop"). Which is about typical.

lol rod bot has found its macro again, you dumb f***ed turd, go get a littlew kid and ask them to explain to you the difference between works ok and "supported", I think, a 4yo should be old enough to understand that and have a chace to epxlain it to a senile ol cook like you spotty

yep rod bot found its 30yo ozemail macros, maybe run it through chat gpt, it might give you something creative to use ya senile dumpster

I know this is a couple weeks old, but wasnt going to interupt my third vacation for the year for being disconnected, marvellous... lots of fresh air and peace... Anyways, I gather its back now, they should supply you with a reason as to why its ongoing, your not by any chance on a RIM are you?

Heh, I've been away for the weekend too. Phone still broken when I got home though.

I've never heard of anyone getting an explanation beyond that it's an issue with the exchange. One bloke did get a personal number for a guy who fixed a break in his line (he's much further from the exchange and on a different line to me, so has much more trouble with that), but I guess that's not current anymore because his phone is out now too (also last time) and he didn't know any more than me when I met him last week.

RIM? Ah, don't think so:

But back when the exchange was failing after every blackout that game me the idea that these problems are mainly with whatever equiment they have in the exchange, rather than the connection between exchanges. A while ago it also had trouble where you'd have to tap the button under the handset a few times before a dial-tone would crackle to life, so obviously a failing relay somewhere there then (others had the same problem).

The thing is they haven't really cared for years because they expect people to be using mobile. But now without 3G mobile barely works here even when it's "working"!

They finally sent someone out to look at the exchange yesterday, three weeks after the second outage began. Apparantly they found the power was off to the exchange. They said they'd called an electrician in to look at it, and it was working again by the end of the day.

Gotta wonder if the electrician just reset a circuit breaker and went home, and whether it was the same cause as whatever broke it earlier, or a faulty fix for that.

But besides, three weeks to have someone drive out and say "it's dead". That's what it's become. And for mobiles they just lie and say there's equal coverage to before when there isn't, so it seems they'll never fix that.

They know the breakers to reset, perhaps it was the RCD, techs are told reset it, if it trips right away leave and report it, old exchange, probably old shabby wiring, but to take 3 weeks to get a sparky out there is completely unacceptable, I'd make some noise, I know you live rural, but you must have a local sparky, maybe he/she wasnt available - away or sick, if theres no fibre to the exchange which my memory there isn't, then they dont have remote reporting, I mean FFS it wouldnt take much for code to be whipped up to make sure everything reports, if an exchange doesnt within 24hours alert somebody, but, its probably too hard for poor injins

Cant trust AI :)

Actually they said it could take a couple of days for the sparky, but it was working by that evening. The three weeks was for someone to come out and poke their head in the exchange to see that the power was off!

A local was talking about bringing it up with the ombudsman, but I'm not sure how much good it'd do.

:)