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Re: State of the Phones

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On Wed, 07 May 2025 09:23:33 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev  
<not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

> In aus.electronics noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 May 2025 08:18:34 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>> In aus.electronics noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 05 May 2025 18:17:21 +1000, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Is this "boop boop" like a busy signal except one tone loud the second
>>>> noticably softer?
>>>
>>> The boops are all the same tone/volume. You get about 16 and a half
>>> after picking up then it goes dead except for a hiss (which is the
>>> exchange's other common failure mode).
>>
>> 16 would be exchange hangup timeout, what have hel$tra said? perhaps a
>> call into ABC radio or, one of those tv current affair mobs
>
> They finished the job yesterday and it's finally working again.
> It's nothing new really with the exchange, there were a few years
> where it would be broken for days after every power outage (even
> though a hiss on the line while the power was out suggested that
> the backup power was working). The problem is that now, without
> 3G, mobile phones are no longer a reliable alternative to it.
> Plenty of coverage of that problem on TV and newspapers back when
> 3G was switched off, but telcos willfully ignored all that, and
> politicians didn't even care to talk about it at the election
> except some meaningless babble from Labor about Elon Musk replacing
> phone towers with satellites. As if that's easier than making the
> phone tower on a mountain a few Km away from me work as well as it
> did last year!

> Clearly nobody really gives a stuff about phone
> service beyond the suburbs anymore.

You are completely wrong about that

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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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