On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 05:30:53PM -0400, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
First, I am deeply sorry you are losing your landline soon. I do appreciate your sharing the last mile rule though. What bell is using fiberactic wise is a modem, in which several services reincorporated, not a strict analog connection into a digital box on its own. What Evan suggested via Teksavy may be the ticket, will find out when I speak to bell accessibility in the morning. As for accessibility mandates? search Bell human rights complaint you will discover that right now David Lepofty is fighting Bell at the federal human rights commission..over an issue I raised at the CRTC in 2018. Bell knows human rights have no teeth in Canada, or take a very very very long time to manage change.
Of course in theory it shouldn't make any difference if the conversion from analog to digital happens in the box in your house or at the local bell building. Assuming of course that they implemented it the same way in both placed, which they should, but maybe they didn't. I have seen multiple people claim fax machines work over thair VoIP connection, which surprised me, because I was under the impression that they didn't. Apparently some VoIP systems actually are fully compatible with what the phone system has been doing at the central office and hence work with the exact same equipment as the "analog" phone line did. If hasn't really been that analog for decades after all. -- Len Sorensen