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| Message-ID | <68187411@news.ausics.net> (permalink) |
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| From | Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> |
| Subject | Re: State of the Phones |
| Newsgroups | aus.comms, aus.electronics |
| References | <6817f23b@news.ausics.net> <20250505095513.715fc86a@ryz.dorfdsl.de> |
| Date | 2025-05-05 18:17 +1000 |
| Organization | Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
In aus.electronics Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote: > On 05.05.2025 09:03 Uhr Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> Phones just don't work anymore in rural areas. >> >> My landline's been dead for over a week with some trouble at the >> exchange. > > Analog landline or any kind of xDSL? Still real analogue POTS out here beyond the towns/cities that the NBN covers. I did see a Telstra ute outside the exchange when I went to town today. I didn't have time to stop and ask what the story was and they were gone by the time I got back. My landline's still not working, it's still just making the hang up "boop, boop," noise when you pick it up, which is one of the exchange's familiar failure modes. >> But they're in no hurry to fix the landlines because everyone's >> supposed to be using mobile phones! > > Don't they complain because of non-working internet access? I doubt anyone's using dial-up over the landline, but I do have trouble with the mobile broadband modem I use for my home internet dropping out since the 3G switch-off, yet not half as bad as with phone calls for some reason. Even though the mobile phones all support Telstra's "new" 700MHz "4GX" band, which my old modem doesn't. Other locals use satellite internet but that was unreliable too back when I used it (and I hear it still is). Perhaps Starlink is better, but it's too expensive for me anyway. -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#
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State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-05-05 09:03 +1000
Re: State of the Phones Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-05-05 09:55 +0200
Re: State of the Phones Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-05-05 18:17 +1000
Re: State of the Phones Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-05-05 10:58 +0200
Re: State of the Phones noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-05-05 21:51 +1000
Re: State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-05-06 08:49 +1000
Re: State of the Phones noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-05-06 23:02 +1000
Re: State of the Phones noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-05-05 22:05 +1000
Re: State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-05-06 08:18 +1000
Re: State of the Phones noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-05-06 23:13 +1000
Re: State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-05-07 09:23 +1000
Re: State of the Phones "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2025-05-10 08:02 +1000
Re: State of the Phones Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-05-14 18:07 +1000
Re: State of the Phones noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-05-25 13:25 +1000
Re: State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-05-27 08:32 +1000
Re: State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-06-06 09:07 +1000
Re: State of the Phones noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-06-06 17:08 +1000
Re: State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-06-07 10:14 +1000
Re: State of the Phones "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2025-05-10 07:49 +1000
Re: State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-05-10 08:12 +1000
Re: State of the Phones "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2025-05-10 09:51 +1000
Re: State of the Phones noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-05-10 23:51 +1000
Re: State of the Phones "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2025-05-11 00:27 +1000
Re: State of the Phones noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-05-11 09:35 +1000
Re: State of the Phones "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2025-05-11 10:17 +1000
Re: State of the Phones noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-05-25 13:21 +1000
Re: State of the Phones Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-05-05 09:11 +0000
Re: State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-05-06 08:39 +1000
Re: State of the Phones not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-05-06 10:03 +1000
Re: State of the Phones "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2025-05-10 07:56 +1000
Re: State of the Phones Ozix <ozix@xizo.am> - 2025-05-08 18:12 +0800
Re: State of the Phones nb <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2025-05-09 08:15 +1000
Re: State of the Phones Ozix <ozix@xizo.am> - 2025-05-09 19:07 +0800
Re: State of the Phones "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2025-05-10 07:45 +1000
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