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Re: State of the Phones

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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote
>>> Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote
>>>> 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.

>> The NBN covers more than just towns and cities

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

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

>>> 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.

>> Then you need to get a new one

> The 700MHz band seems to be useless here anyway, since the phones
> that support it work even worse.

Fantasy

> New modems are too limited anyway
> since none of them support AT commands anymore, so you're stuck
> with some dopey web interface.

Wrong with wifi calling

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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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