[ale] isp questions

[DJ-Pfulio]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:09:45 -0700
Alex Carver via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On 2020-06-16 16:57, DJ-Pfulio via Ale wrote:
> >    ..........
> >> spare pairs, all the others were in use. Because of the two calls
> >> the two spares are gone and we're now with zero spares.  They told
> >> me one more outage would force them to replace everything because
> >> they would not have the spares.  So we'll see what happens.  
> > 
> > Don't be on that until 50% of the connections are failed and then
> > they may just drop wired service since the FCC thinks everyone can
> > use 5G instead.
> > 
> > in my neighborhood, Comcast Business is completely separate from
> > Xfinity.  They have outages that i do not.  We have ATT fibre and
> > i've been thinking about switching but just can't pull the trigger
> > due to   
> 
> They can't let the service fail because that would disrupt 911 calls.
> Once there's no spares they have to swap.  There's Charter cable and
> AT&T copper service here.  No fiber is available in this area
> currently. They have FTTN but the node is very far away.

DSL and POTS are split to avoid PUC oversight of non-regulated
connections.  POTS is being phased out for u-verse Voip.