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Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom]

From "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Newsgroups comp.dcom.telecom
Subject Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom]
Date 2011-04-04 15:54 +0000
Organization The Telecom Digest
Message-ID <20110404155445.14920.qmail@joyce.lan> (permalink)
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>A friend of mine has FiOS, up in Maryland.  A year or so ago I visited him
>and the FiOS box in the garage was flashing a red light saying the battery
>needed replacing, which I pointed out to him.  Last week I visited again, and
>the light is still flashing and the battery has not been changed.
>
>If you don't do scheduled maintenance, things break.

Right.  Part of the attraction of FiOS, from VZ's point of view, is
that [they] foist off the responsibility for maintaining the battery
backup on the customer, who generally doesn't understand that until
it's too late.

I mentioned this to someone at our rural ILEC a while back, who was
flabbergasted that the telco wouldn't maintain the batteries.  This is
hardly a new issue, [since] they changed out customer batteries all
the time in the early 1900s.

R's,
John

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RE: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "AJB Consulting" <ajbcs@frontier.com> - 2011-04-01 09:22 -0400
  Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-01 19:49 -0400
    Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "AJB Consulting" <ajbcs@frontier.com> - 2011-04-02 10:31 -0400
      Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-02 17:01 -0700
    Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2011-04-02 10:42 -0700
      Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-02 17:45 -0400
        Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-02 22:18 -0400
          Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2011-04-03 18:18 -0700
      Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2011-04-04 10:05 -0400
        Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-04-04 15:54 +0000
          Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Eric Tappert <e.tappert.spamnot@worldnet.att.net> - 2011-04-04 15:24 -0400
            Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2011-04-04 19:52 +0000
            Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-04-04 17:00 -0700
              Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Gary" <bogus-email@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-10 13:55 -0400
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com> - 2011-04-11 15:35 +1000
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-04-11 08:39 -0700
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com> - 2011-04-12 08:29 +1000
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-04-11 21:42 -0500
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2011-04-12 20:09 -0700
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-04-13 21:35 -0500
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] David Clayton <dcstar@myrealbox.com> - 2011-04-13 13:58 +1000
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-04-12 03:30 +0000
            Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2011-04-04 18:38 -0700
              Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net> - 2011-04-05 10:52 -0400
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "AJB Telecom" <ajbtelecom@frontier.com> - 2011-04-06 09:25 -0400
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Jim Bennett" <ajbtelecom@frontier.com> - 2011-04-07 10:02 -0400
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Lisa or Jeff <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> - 2011-04-07 09:38 -0700
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2011-04-07 17:09 +0000
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] "Jim Bennett" <ajbtelecom@frontier.com> - 2011-04-08 11:41 -0400
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi) - 2011-04-08 11:31 -0500
                Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2011-04-06 03:56 +0000
    Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Sam Spade <sam@coldmail.com> - 2011-04-02 13:44 -0700
      Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2011-04-02 20:23 -0500
    Re: Does FiOS support rotary phones? [telecom] Wes Leatherock <wleathus@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-02 16:51 -0700

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