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dc2r
2 years agoFriendly Neighbour
Transfer to Telus PureFibre from old copper service.... what to expect?
My elderly parents like in a 90's home with copper service. All they have with Telus is a land line and the DSC alarm system. Last year their service went down and a Telus technician came around ...
Nighthawk
Community Power User
2 years agoThey will not need to replace the jacks and you shouldn't need to move the furniture unless something is blocking the jack closest to where they'll install the fibre gateway. Essentially once installed, they'll connect it to a jack and their phones should work as they did before. The only thing I'd check for is if there is a battery backup on the fibre gateway so that the phone service may still function for a short time in a power outage. I ended up adding a full UPS battery backup to mine as it powers my router also.
dc2r
2 years agoFriendly Neighbour
Any thoughts on the alarm system? There shouldn't be any issues should it?