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Sad times. I always liked having a corded phone powered off the phone line, that way if the power went out it would still work. Granted, these days you'd fall back to a mobile, but I like the nostalgia.
I also hate the idea that customers are paying twice for the same thing. I pay for my internet connection, I pay for my phone, but now my phone is using my internet connection. It's almost as bad as Sky are trying to do with their phase out of satellite.
The move to fibre is great in many ways, but I do think there is some value in the redundancy older, simpler technology provided.
Analogue radio is another, it may appear primitive today but it's very robust. It's been an essential form of information distribution around the world during emergencies such as natural disasters, when more complicated systems like mobile networks fall over.
I live in quite a rural area and we have power cuts semi regularly, and we also have no signal on any network. It used to be quite fun plugging in the backup corded home phone with its curly cable to phone the power company!
Yeah what's up with that? At my mom's place they just took the dish down and gave her an internet box. Isn't that a lot of bandwidth wasted?
It's Sky profiteering. The whole reason Sky was supposed to justify being so expensive was because of the infrastructure cost, which was baked into the overall Sky TV price. Now they're charging the same price but you also pay for the infrastructure for your internet, and also as you say it uses up bandwidth on your internet. At least with VOIP the use is more or less negligible, but HD video streaming uses a lot.
yea, it can be. sucking-up your own internet connection, that you're also paying for, to watch 'satellite' tv. i bet she didn't get a discount for that, either. cheaper for them though, satellites are expensive, bandwidth is cheap (for them, anyway.. what they charge customers most likely doesn't reflect that).
I believe a lot of analog phones now transfer to VoIP at the cabinet. Those cabinets don't have a UPS in them. A friend of mine (naively) thought putting his ASDL modem on a UPS would keep his internet working during a power cut. His side worked, unfortunately the street box went dark, till the power came back up.
Even an analog phone will now fall over in a power cut.