  KayracPremium
join:2001-09-29
Madison, WI | working now appears to be working now, atleast for me! | |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | They could always... Route those calls over POTS system. | |
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 | | | Re: They could always... I just had this problem May 16th, but real early in the morning. I thought one Really Big Outage was enough for a while, but I guess not. That's why I have a cell phone, for the instances like this. | |
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| | Unfortunate Outage I guess this is why I have to pay $70 a month for regular 'ol basic unlimited nationwide landline phone service from AT&T. It appears VOIP isn't up to the challenge. My POTS line hasn't failed in over 10+ years. But, that could just be luck. | |
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| | | Re: Unfortunate Outage $70? I pay $43 for unlimited nationwide POTS from AT&T (Ameritech region) | |
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| |  DavidI have a son- d3Premium,VIP
join:2002-05-30
Granite City, IL
kudos:68 | Re: Unfortunate Outage I pay per use on long distance (pioneer telecom) my bill typically never hits higher than $30-35 a month. no VoIP just, POTS. | |
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| | | | | Re: Unfortunate Outage Must suck to not get phone concessions.  | |
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| | | | DavidI have a son- d3Premium,VIP
join:2002-05-30
Granite City, IL
kudos:68 | Re: Unfortunate Outage I don't miss them, they are rather small these days. | |
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| | | | | dforan
join:2000-12-09
Willoughby, OH | Re: Unfortunate Outage I supposedly get LD concessions
I use my cell
Too much of a hassle to send in the ORIGINAL bill.. Why they need the ORIGINAL is beyond my limited comprehension | |
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| | | You should only be paying $45 a month for ANALOG AT&T unlimited nationwide calls. I just called to switch our digital back to analog landline. Not sure why they are charging you $70. But these outages haven't just been phone outages for us; they've been Internet instability, too. First, we're switching the phone lines back to analog. Then, we'll see if other services improve but the decreased draw on the bandwidth. | |
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bdon78I didn't do it
join:2009-05-18
Decatur, GA | Definitely a Problem So... its kind of strange too... calls connect then drop... (insert iPhone in NYC joke here)
First time I've had a Uverse voice issue so far in the 2 years I've had it. Clearly my internet is working fine... | |
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| | tier 2 shutsdown server tier 2 tech for voice has stopped taking calls | |
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 ropeguruPremium
join:2001-01-25
Grafton, WV | Uhhhh... Anyone seen Splitpair  ? Is he using his left over beanies again to repair the lines?  | |
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 lordfly
join:2000-10-12
Homestead, FL | This is why... My wife won't let me get rid of the land line. So I keep on paying for a line that we rarely use and don't even have long distance on. | |
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| | | Re: This is why... I can go one better than that. I have neither a POTS or their voice plan. In my house, it's strictly all cell phones.
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| | lordfly
join:2000-10-12
Homestead, FL Reviews:
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| Re: This is why... I offered her to transfer our POTS line number to a cell and pay about $15/mo instead of $25/mo and have long distance. Nope, the complaint I then got was, what if the cell towers don't work during the next Hurricane, blah, blah. Frankly it is a weak excuse. Maybe after this hurricane season I will try again to reason with her. | |
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| | (yeah for me) I gambled correctly! I was hesitant about ditching u-verse voice a few months back after the last local outage...but I switched to Ooma and so far so good! (happy today!)
I'm sure I won't be happy when Ooma tanks for some reason like this though... | |
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 NetGearrerum cognoscere causasPremium
join:1999-12-20
TEXAS | No problems here... It's been there when I needed it today. Have had our land-line go down, too. No biggie... have a couple of cell phones if we need them or worst case use Skype. Granted, if this were to become a long-term issue, then that would not be acceptable. | |
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| | Are Ham Radio people saving the day again? Are Ham Radio people saving the day again? | |
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| | VOIP is not as reliable as POTS!!! No surprise here! The low prices come at another price, reliability, and issues will happen. | |
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| | About VOIP I am sorry but POTS will be gone in about 5 years and VOIP is the new POTS. Most of your cable and smaller telcos are using VOIP instead of POTS. | |
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| | | Re: About VOIP I do not disagree. I use VOIP but do not expect the same reliability as POTS for now. | |
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| |  JimThePCGuyFormerly known as schja01.Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-27
Morton Grove, IL | Re: About VOIP VOIP has too many things that can go wrong. As my boss would say: As the number of components in a system approaches infinity the mean time to failure approaches zero. | |
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| | en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Give it a few years, your POTS will essentially be a VoIP based POTS system, having the 'only' non VoIP part be the part between your house and the CO. | |
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sjhallPremium
join:2004-05-18
Pompano Beach, FL | Still down in FL Uverse VoIP still down here. Never had these problems with CallVantage. | |
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|  fiber_manThings Happen For A ReasonPremium
join:2001-01-27
Port Saint Lucie, FL | Re: Still down in FL Working just fine here. I have had it for over a year without any problems.
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guppy_fishPremium
join:2003-12-09
Lakeland, FL
kudos:1 | VOIP = MAYBE PHONE Suckers will never learn I guess, VOIP is a maybe phone, maybe it will work, maybe it won't. But being were now a country with the Walmart mentality ( price is everything ) whats missing service every now and then to saving a few bucks | |
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JimThePCGuyFormerly known as schja01.Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-27
Morton Grove, IL | POTS does have its advantages it seems This is EXACTLY why you'll have to pry my POTS line from my cold dead hands. | |
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| | AP Wire Story BC-US-TEC--AT&T-Phone Outage
Widespread outage for AT&T's digital phone lines
Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led.
NEW YORK (AP) - AT&T's new digital home phone service failed across the country Tuesday.
Customers of AT&T Inc.'s U-Verse Voice say their landline phones have had no dial tones since the morning. Reached by cell phone, the customers say those who call them get a message that the line has been disconnected. Support personnel are telling customers that a server crash brought down the service in AT&T's entire 22-state local-phone service area.
AT&T spokeswoman Mari Melguizo says service was being restored in the afternoon, though some customers are still affected.
U-Verse Voice sends calls over the customer's Internet
connection, making it technically similar to independent services such as Vonage. AT&T said in January that it had signed up more than 1 million U-Verse Voice customers. | |
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| | | Re: AP Wire Story mine is still down in Cleveland, OH at almost 6:00 pm here eventhough this forum says all users are back up | |
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 vrettePremium
join:2000-07-22
Lombard, IL
1 edit | Double-Whammy I rarely use the land line, but this AM I needed to call at&t because my bill was messed up, only to find, my phone service wasn't working either. Double-Whammy! I had to use my Verizon cell phone to talk to u-Verse customer service about the mistake on my u-Verse bill and to call tech support to find out the about the voice line troubles. Oh, the irony... | |
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| | . . .service has been restored for all users ??? I do not think so! A friend north of Chicago still does not have his land line working. This has been going on since at least noon today. Thank God he has a cell phone for emergency. | |
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WhatNowPremium
join:2009-05-06
Charlotte, NC | Where is their backup plan It is hard to believe 1 server crashing caused this unlees they are so cheap they only had one server. I could see a problem for just minutes or up to a half hour at the most. As someone stated at&t Call-Advantage did not have this problem so they know how to build a redundant stable network. They are in the network business and this is the second time in the last few days they have dropped large parts of the u-verse voice network. | |
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| guppy_fishPremium
join:2003-12-09
Lakeland, FL
kudos:1 Reviews:
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| Re: Where is their backup plan said by WhatNow: As someone stated at&t Call-Advantage did not have this problem so they know how to build a redundant stable network. That was a third party system, AT&T had nothing to do with the actual service | |
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| | not working here U-Verse voice still not working in East Central Oklahoma. Efforts to reach U-Verse tech support were thwarted by misdirected calls and hangups from the tech dept. | |
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