-------- Original Message -------- | From: Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> Rogers has or had UPS built into the home phone box. And they have batteries on their neighbourhood boxes. (During a long power failure, they even brought a generator for the one near us.) [Steve Petrie] Nice to read something positive about Rogers. My last Rogers interaction last week, had a Rogers sales rep ending his call to me, by shouting that I had just wasted his valuable time (because I had told him the technical reasons why I would rather pay a $18 / month Bell Canada premium, over the Rogers monthly service price, to keep my ROCK-SOLID RELIABLE Bell Canada service. This same brain-dead abusive Rogers sales loser, actually ended our call by shouting "F**k You !!" at me, before he ended the call. Charming :) Seemed to me his vituperative manner could have been a reflection of a possibly desperate Rogers. Bell Canada execs may surely be cruel and ruthless greedy squeezers, but still, Bell does seem to value service reliability as a core corporate value. * * * * * * [Alvin Starr] Bell had a UPS built into their home internet+phone boxes. But not the latest ones. (The old Bell system had large lead-acid batteries in the COs. Old handsets were actually powered by the CO. Modern ones have their own power for many functions. So we used to expect the phone to work during "hydro" failures.) [Steve Petrie] My friend who lives in her house in the Bloor West Village / High Park area, has an ancient wall-mounted Northern Telecom analogue phone in her kitchen. So far as I know, this indestructible NT museum-piece is still powered from the Bell CO. Whenever she occasionally has a Bell service outage, she's at the bottom of Bell Canada's repair priority list. She tells me that the Bell technician despatched to fix her dead copper-pair service, is invariably contemptuous and surly to her. Seems like like internal Bell ethos is to consider all twisted-copper-pair-connected service holdouts, as hopelessly outdated dispensable ancient codgers. Probably some obscure CRTC ruling prevents Bell Canada from forcing the few remaining copper-pair holdouts onto Bell Fibe. Bell Canada has run a fibre line to a Bell box fastened to the exterior brick wall of her house, but so far, my friend is a relentlessly frugal Bell CO-powered bastion of senior citizen obduracy. It just occurred to me, that she probably saves a couple of cents every month, by drawing her phone-power from the Bell CO, instead of getting her phone power through her metered Toronto Hydro power service. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk