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| Thread ID: 139834 | 2015-07-06 03:27:00 | Spark is calling | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 1404200 | 2015-07-07 21:33:00 | Quote from Spark's letter: "From 1 November this year, it'll cost extra to keep your copper landline. To make the move nice and easy, we've teamed up with Downer (the guys who handle the technical side of your changeover) and created an online form. ..." |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1404201 | 2015-07-07 21:41:00 | I would assume that by going fibre for the phone meaning that it's VOIP? And, in VOIP, when the Internet is down, the phone follows, right? Only if the fiber side goes down as he phone (Spark) will will be on a separate LAN segment being supplied to your ONT most likely via a Virtual Lan (VLan) so it dosen't go anywhere near the internet. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1404202 | 2015-07-07 21:43:00 | Don't actually get that. How can they? As far as I know it's a choice whether you get fibre or not, at least for most of us. However there are many people in NZ that can't even get ADSL never mind anything else. What do they do? Article in todays paper by some guy in Ch/ch, fibre going to be 3 yrs away. So no fibre and no copper either? And I can't find anything on Telecoms website about it. That is referring to getting rid of coper landline when fiber is available. Copper is not going away if there is no alternative.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1404203 | 2015-07-07 23:20:00 | Yes they are only referring to *if* you change to fiber. If you don't change, nothing happens... | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1404204 | 2015-07-08 01:32:00 | Yes they are only referring to *if* you change to fiber. If you don't change, nothing happens... Until Chorus retires the copper.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1404205 | 2015-07-08 02:32:00 | Which will not be any time soon. | Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1404206 | 2015-07-08 04:47:00 | Yes they are only referring to *if* you change to fiber. If you don't change, nothing happens... I finally found their news bit on the website. I got that.....me, I shall leave things alone for now. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1404207 | 2015-07-08 07:49:00 | Until Chorus retires the copper.. Its happened in other countries so will eventually happen here too |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1404208 | 2015-07-08 22:33:00 | Its happened in other countries so will eventually happen here too So when "der tag" arrives and everything turns to custard there will be no way of communicating, except by means of runners carrying notes in cleft sticks :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1404209 | 2015-07-09 00:19:00 | What makes you think the copper network could be relied on in an emergency? | Alex B (15479) | ||
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