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Copper phone lines
Is there anyone that offers service on a copper line - Telus is constantly telling me they are going to move my home phone service to Fibre - which I do NOT want. If anyone knows of any provider tha...
abbytreasures Your only solution is to buy a good inverter generator or install an all house generator on propane or gas. Consult an electrician to have a stable ac supply electronics are very fussy about 60 cycle feed.
What is your reason for wanting to stay on copper phone service?
Fibre phone service has battery backup in case of power outage. Nothing in your home needs to change as far as your own equipment. Service is much more reliable and higher quality.
Reliability in power outages. If you are out power for a few days, the battery backups they say exist won't last that long. I have read many posts of people complaining of their backup battery not lasting even a day.
abbytreasures Outage where i live over 3 days We only had 4 calls during that time batt still had power on morning 4th day. I unplugged the phone so it wouldn't use up batt for emergency only for us. Made 2 calls to family and got 2 calls that's when i unplugged phone. Just used generator and bbq.
So I'm assuming there is no other supplier of copper landlines?
abbytreasures Your only solution is to buy a good inverter generator or install an all house generator on propane or gas. Consult an electrician to have a stable ac supply electronics are very fussy about 60 cycle feed.
