[ale] isp questions

[Alex Carver]

On 2020-06-16 19:34, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, that I understand.  However, half of the circuits in the
neighborhood are actually POTS (according to the line crew) and not a
digital service so they're still on the hook to keep the lines working
especially because of the way this neighborhood is wired.  The 50 pair
trunk actually snakes from house to house with a splice in each yard to
pull a pair out.  If a pair goes bad now, they would not have another to
move any POTS customer which means no 911 for those customers.  They'd
be ripping it all out at that point.