Have you tried asking bell to make your equipment work with their new phone equipment. There are something like 75 to 100 codecs that can be used with VIOP. It may be that Bell can configure or tune their voip ATA in your home to work with your specialized equipment. On 2023-03-19 17:30, Karen Lewellen via talk wrote:
Hi there, 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. Kare
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
| From: Karen Lewellen via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| Any carrier still provide this as an option?
Probably not. Everyone depends on Bell to provide the last mile of copper. If they don't, they don't.
I am about to lose my copper landline. Apparently I can keep my old 3rd party DSL but it will be now over a copper "dry loop". Counter-intuitive to me. So much so that I don't 100% trust that this will happen.
| I have moved, with Bell no longer offering analog, only fiberactic which seems | to interact with the specialty phone I use due to disability. | Thoughts?
The specifications of the new analog port on the digital box are identical to the specifications of the copper line. So it should work.
(In your old place, all but your last mile was surely digital.)
If it does not work, Bell should make it work for you. They are mandated to make their system accessible. You may have to escalate the problem -- I don't know. But I would guess that you are good at that.
Many on this list are prone to try to solve tech problems, even if they should be the vendor's problem. You have experienced this phenomenon.
Perhaps the best way to present your problem to Bell is to say: - this accessability aid worked before - it doesn't work now - please help me
As a fall-back, ask the device manufacturer. If they still exist, they will probably tell you to buy a new model. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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