On 21/11/2022 16.13, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
Hi, Bell notified me that they will soon be shutting down my copper telephone service, no options. My DSL to TekSavvy will go with it. Joy.
I haven't received notice yet, but there have been Bell folks going round with door tags in the streets near me, and I suspect I'll hear soon too.
PS: I pay ~$40/Mo for landline, which looks to increase to $52 after the change! Robbers!
Copper service is CRTC rate regulated. Fibre isn't. The head of the CRTC - a former TELUS SVP - knows who his real friends are. I'm currently fighting with voip.ms setup, as my elderly mum in Scotland can't get the hang of video chats. Everything about doing VOIP yourself seems impossibly complex or requires completely arcane obsolete equipment. I mean, where are the wifi ATA adaptors (that are under $500 each)? I don't have ethernet cable everywhere, and don't want it, frankly, anywhere. Stewart