Deloptes  wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
>
> > There's lots of POTS phones still here in the UK, at least the last
> > few miles is still a copper (or if you're unlucky) an aluminium pair.
>
> This is true, but the voice switches changed. I worked for a provider in
> Ireland and the DMS100 was decommissioned 5y ago. What stayed is the CS2K
> which would do the switching for your two copper or aluminum pair wire.
> A friend I met in another project worked for Virgin Media in the UK, but I
> stepped back and I don't know what kind of switches they use there.
> So basically there are no POTS (analog) lines on the switches (at least in
> half of Europe where I worked). I bet you have a phone with buttons and not
> with the old rotary dial.
> The reason to decommission the POTS was the maintenance and electricity cost
> not to mention the size.

Yes, but since the last mile or two is still copper the explanation I
gave for how you can have no telephone service but have an internet
connection still stands.  A break in the 'last mile or so' of copper
will produce those symptoms.

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Chris Green
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