On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 5:35 PM Michael Galea via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2022-11-21 17:51, Tom Low-Shang via talk wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 04:13:28PM -0500, 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.
Have you contacted TekSavvy about it? They do provide service on a dry loop at no extra charge. That's how my TekSavvy DSL is setup.
I spoke to the sales guy at TekSavvy first. He asked "Are they going to remove the copper?", which I thought was ominous.
I spoke to two Bell service reps and one said the copper would stay. The second went away to tech support (10 minutes!) and then said "Bell management was committed to a completely fibre based network". I crupt in to the technical support line and a tech confirmed the bad news, the copper is being yanked.
Germany has gone to a 100% non-POTS system.
PS: Thank you to Alex and Mike for confirming that I could run PPPoE through the Bell modem.
PPS: Oddly enough, my daughter, a Globe and Mail reporter, is interviewing the head of the CRTC today. I wish she could ask him why I'm going to have to pay Bell double the cost of my TekSavvy Internet and what he expects TekSavvy to do when all the DSL and Cable is gone.
(Hopefully you won't be too insulted with a rhetorical question - - ) Do you really think Bell gives one rat's fart about anything than their profit? (Please note - - - service is somewhat similar(!!!) in their structure - - - yes I am now also a 'Bell' customer - - - so speaking from experience ;-( !! )