atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums General Telecom News A date set for the end of POTS?

With at&t about to hand over LEC duties in Connecticut to Frontier, should people be making any big changes until they know how things are going to flesh out?

I screwed up and discontinued our T-1 (Voice & Data)-- Unbeknowst by me, there was my copper modem line on the bill--an AT&T line that was resold by TDS Metrocom. Today I just got a new AT&T line in--Just a POTS. Works good. No problems in getting it.

We checked the nearest pedestal last week---not one copper circuit of any kind was there. At one time, the pedestal was almost full.

No one knows what the Frontier buyout means, AT&T customers or employees.

After AT&Ts stellar performance today, maybe Frontier will be better. We moved an office across town today, both locations served by the same CO. They killed the lines at the old site at 8:00 am and restored them at the new site at 4:00 pm.

We had an AT&T tech sitting in the basement for 5 hours, waiting for dial tone. 10 minutes after the tail lights disappear, so does dial tone on one of the lines. Had to open a repair ticket for next week.

Seems like at&t might not have pretested the new paths to verify all was well before the cut.

I doubt it. All our local service was sold to frontier with no warning. I got a higher bill, amd slower DSL as part of my "upgrade" at bayonet point. Frontier has never been anything better than unhelpful. I couldn't get DSL installed at my parents house 2 doors down frm me, even though the line to my house crossed their property within 20' of their house. Can't wait for them to be forced out of our area.

Must be a US thing with not wanting to put new copper in.

Here in Manitoba I saw that the Winnipeg Chapter of Habitat for Humanity had new copper extended to a redeveloped surplussed school yard by Manitoba Telecom Services that they were changing to a 30 home subdivision.

MTS just spliced into the existing copper on the back lane across the street and put a few aerial terminals on the new hydro poles.

Shaw cable also came in and extended their coax cable to the same subdivision the same way to give the new owners the choice of who they wanted as provider of TV and/or dial tone.

Part of the justification for wanting to run away from copper has to do with residential POTS lines being disconnected in liu of going 100% cellular. On the commercial side, many companies are migrating voice traffic onto data networks served by fiber. That leaves lots of copper out there not generating any revenue, and LECs are becoming increasingly reluctant to roll trucks to maintain unused infrastructure.

Wont happen here. I still see new pots lines going into retail busineses hooked up to Avaya and Cisco gear.