I was one of those people who were effective by the cellular outage. People were trying to reach me. Luckily, we still have a house phone, which I was using to communicate with people. I think it is important for homes to have a house line for that reason. You can't always relay on a cell phone, especially an iPhone.
POTS lines do not typically stay on as they used to either unfortunately. Our Bellsouth telephone line went out three times this year due to the problems that AT&T was having nation wide, both incoming and outgoing. The last time, earlier this month, I was tired of it and I finally ported our 40 year old number out to another voip carrier that is much cheaper and use a generic ATA to feed my wall jacks as normal. 80 bucks a month for a flaky service that you'd expect to be reliable is not worth it.
The FCC has sunset copper lines and no longer requires the providers to properly maintain and repair the equipment. As sad as it is, there's no advantage to having a copper line at this point, the service is no longer going to be the reliable gem it once was.
@@JordanU This is unfortunately true, and my disappointment when learning that AT&T now uses the same core on both wireline and wireless services was immeasurable. I wonder if this situation is the same for the few individuals that still have Verizon copper lines during the Verizon cellular outage today...
I was one of those people who were effective by the cellular outage. People were trying to reach me. Luckily, we still have a house phone, which I was using to communicate with people.
I think it is important for homes to have a house line for that reason. You can't always relay on a cell phone, especially an iPhone.
Every building should have landline service, if nothing else just for emergency purposes.
agreed we cant rely on our cell phones we rely on cell phones so much
I have a magic jack and had almost no outages... Pretty reliable for such an phone service for VoIP.
This is the first time in several years that I've encountered something like this.
I've been using Magicjack for at least 9-10 years now, and your right. If your Internet doesn't go out, they're pretty reliable most of the time.
Glad you got the phone working again bro enjoyed the video
Me too, it was quite inconvenient to not be able to make and receive calls.
POTS lines do not typically stay on as they used to either unfortunately. Our Bellsouth telephone line went out three times this year due to the problems that AT&T was having nation wide, both incoming and outgoing. The last time, earlier this month, I was tired of it and I finally ported our 40 year old number out to another voip carrier that is much cheaper and use a generic ATA to feed my wall jacks as normal. 80 bucks a month for a flaky service that you'd expect to be reliable is not worth it.
The FCC has sunset copper lines and no longer requires the providers to properly maintain and repair the equipment. As sad as it is, there's no advantage to having a copper line at this point, the service is no longer going to be the reliable gem it once was.
@@JordanU This is unfortunately true, and my disappointment when learning that AT&T now uses the same core on both wireline and wireless services was immeasurable.
I wonder if this situation is the same for the few individuals that still have Verizon copper lines during the Verizon cellular outage today...
So I’ve got a question about magic jack billing. Is it a monthly subscription or a yearly subscription?
Check with MagicJack, I believe there are different options.
My magicJack has internet issues sometimes
Not good.
My mothers magic jack had the same problem
I believe the outage effected ever user.
Verizon is having a nationwide outage right now. Im a tmobile customer so im safe.
Most of those smaller name companies operate off the same towers. I doubt they are immune to the same outages.
I like it
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I didn't like it.