I've been trying for 2 days to get my landline phone service back, but technicians are "all backed up" in the Burke-Springfield area.

Lost a day's work today waiting for the service call which just pushed into tomorrow. The bastards.

Same problem in Burke. Technician finally arrived today (Wednesday). Found no problem with Verizon connection but determined that my Cordless phone main base died. Said I need new phone. He plugged in one of my old landline corded phones and it works.

Prone to Violence: What was determined to be your problem?

Your copper landline is not a priority to them. Couple of years ago took 2 weeks to come fix landline. Their focus is FIOS as told to me by the repairman. Switched over to FIOS when it came to our development. Needed repairman to come out to fix FIOS box on house. Showed up within days, not weeks. He was from Richmond. Verizon brings them to our area to work for so many days, puts them up in hotels then they go back home for so many days. They have lots of FIOS work up here to be done. If they could cut your copper they would...

I also have resisted the fiber conversion. I did not want a battery in my basement that I needed to maintain. But now my copper services is a bit spotty. It works than it doesn't; back and forth. There is nothing they are able to do with it. I guess they figure that it will eventually come back on.

It would be nice to dump Verizon, but I need a landline (not VOIP).

I also have resisted the fiber conversion. I did not want a battery in my basement that I needed to maintain. But now my copper services is a bit spotty. It works than it doesn't; back and forth. There is nothing they are able to do with it. I guess they figure that it will eventually come back on.

It would be nice to dump Verizon, but I need a landline (not VOIP).

Love Verizon service when it works and for me it has been rock solid for almost 10 years.

But copper or FIOS, due to Union and Verizon Corp issue, it takes 1-2 weeks for repairs these days. This is really, really sad.

I do home networking and telco work anyway, so if it is inside problem, I have phone and cable test equipment, same analog and FIOS testers Verizon uses as well.

I also have a collection of FIOS routers and power supplies that I have picked up over the years, so unless there is a problem with the FIOS ONT I have parts on hand.

I have found a disturbing trend these days, everyone had cordless phone. Nobody has hardwired phones anymore. I have 3 hardwired phones in my house along with 2 separate cordless phone systems. Both of my cordless phone base units will continue to function on a power outage as well.

Nothing beats an old Bell Systems bullet proof phone, I love these things and when ever I can find one, I grab it.

Again, not sure why Verizon is SO SLOW to respond to outage problems. My mom had a few problems with her phone, Verizon was moving a pole and major splicing was going on a few blocks away. Verizon screwed up and cross her number with a little used business line. Not her fault, nothing at her house. I finally figured this out when I could not reach her and had a neighbor tell her to call me, Caller ID indicate it was not the phone number she has had for almost 65 years! Stupid Verizon took over 2 weeks to solve the problem THEY created.

So PRAY your Verizon service does not need repair. It can, but should not, take WEEEKS!

Who the hell has a landline anymore?!?!?!?! I called Verizon and had them disconnect it. Why pay for two phones, landline and cell?

Have always had COX. Never had any problems with them.

There's a thread somewhere here on FFXU about Verizon's forced evolution to the FIOS network. At one point, they were not repairing copper, if your drop needed repair, they would install an ONT instead and force you to go digital on your voice line.

I'm with CopperII, fuck your VOIP shit, POTS works all the time, every time.

At least it did, until the derecho two years ago where the power outages were so widespread that the lightspan's ran out of battery power after two days. Copper isn't as bulletproof as it used to be.

I'm now stuck with a digital phone, and TBH the CODEC is good enough that fax and modem work fine.

Yes but copper isn't cheap either.

BEEN ABLE WITH CABLE Wrote:
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> Who the hell has a landline anymore?!?!?!?! I
> called Verizon and had them disconnect it. Why
> pay for two phones, landline and cell?
>
> Have always had COX. Never had any problems with
> them.


Verizon has crazy rules about landlines. I called and told them I wanted to get rid of the landline but keep the Internet DSL. They said you cant do that. I asked why and the guy did not have an answer.

Do the old "bullet proof" dial and touch tone phones from the 1970's work on fios digital? I like to use the old phones too.

Copper Wrote:
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> Your copper landline is not a priority to them.
> Couple of years ago took 2 weeks to come fix
> landline. Their focus is FIOS as told to me by the
> repairman. Switched over to FIOS when it came to
> our development. Needed repairman to come out to
> fix FIOS box on house. Showed up within days, not
> weeks. He was from Richmond. Verizon brings them
> to our area to work for so many days, puts them up
> in hotels then they go back home for so many days.
> They have lots of FIOS work up here to be done. If
> they could cut your copper they would...

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they do satellite, fiber too, as well as what else

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there a rumor COX had their hired niggers and foreigners cut Verizon wires here in fairfax not long ago

WTOP, the communist radio transmission station, advertised it was verizon employees attacking their own lines

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me. i would testify that, if an illegal worker attacked infrastructure - that constitutes treason - a militant attack inside a country one is not a member of

if i mc'carthyism remember, during a war, and there are many ongoign wars and financial attacks on usa ...

a foreign militan caught inside another country attacking infrastructure is ...

IMMEDIATELY SHOT and left to die

trea·son
noun: the crime of betraying one's OWN country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.


DSL is a whole different animal. You need a working phone line so they can put it on top of your dial tone. Then you have to make sure you put all those filters on all the other jacks in your house.To do anything different breaks the system and none of the idiots in the order center can figure it out.

NWGTP, you're probably remembering one of the rounds of contract negotiations with the union. There are a few miscreants who feel necessary to remind corporate just how necessary they are. Corporate sticks managers in trucks and tells them to go repair the lines and makes them think they're doing great things... Until the next round of layoffs.

I think we can all agree than Verizon doesn't give two shits about the union, it's managers, the consumer, or even expanding technology. It's all about the almighty dollar!

I keep getting callers who say they saw what I did last summer.

I had Verizon put this phone on a pole outside my house. It is a pay as you go plan and I never get a bill. As a bonus it has a shelf where I can place my 22oz beers in a paper sack.
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Speaking of pay phones..are there any still left in this area? Where?

Verizon's VoIP terminates at the ONT (the box on the wall outside your house) to regular PoTS lines. All your old equipment should work fine (including pulse dialing but I haven't tried that).

Calling card Wrote:
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> Speaking of pay phones..are there any still left
> in this area? Where?

There was one at the Sunoco station at the int of Stone Road and Rt 29 in Centreville last summer.