Solve : Voice Link Stinks. Ask New Jersey. Forget Fiber.?

1.	Solve : Voice Link Stinks. Ask New Jersey. Forget Fiber.?
Answer» This would be posted in news, but it is a somewhat hard to follow because of the 'smoke and mirrors' of the big telecommunications monopolies. So I haven to snake it simple to explain what is going on here. Verizon has a service called 'Voice LINK' that is a poor replacement for copper wire. Of course, that is not how they present it. The truth is the technology is retro grade to the extreme. It is a low grade radio service much inferior to copper wire. It is almost as if the phone company ripped out your landmine and gave you an old CB radio as a replacement. For reference, here is a very recent link about the problem. Of cousrse, the problem is not new, just the review was on August 7 of this year. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/fiber-optic Yes, the report e is about fiber optic. It is how they did not get fiber optic tat had been promised yeas gone by. Just ask the people in New York and New Jersey about this. Quote The irony in all of this is that Verizon failed to properly upgrade the entire plant with fiber optic services and yet collected money to do so -- billions per state. We discussed the situation in New Jersey where the entire state was to be upgraded to fiber and Verizon collected billions to do it. New York State's laws are somewhat DIFFERENT. However, in 2009, the New York State Department of Public Service increased basic rates to pay for massive fiber optic upgrades -- BTW: the term POTS is understood to mean a plain TELEPHONE service that can use a dial-up modem, accept a collect call, receive a FAX, make international calls and call 911 for help. The service Verizon has offered does not have these normal features. Wanna talk about this? Are you still waiting for fiber optic? You won't get it. Quote from: Geek-9pm on August 16, 2013, 10:19:33 PM So I haven to snake it simple to explain what is going on here. Huh? Quote from: Geek-9pm on August 16, 2013, 10:19:33 PM It is almost as if the phone company ripped out your landmine and gave you an old CB radio as a replacement. I don't have a landmine. I like CB radios though...Verizon, others too, offered to bring conventional telephone service to people that did not have it. Verizon claims the estimated cost was based on simple voice quality service. But customers wanted that to include a connection that would support high-speed DSL. That would HAPPEN in they were to install new high-quality copper wires Anyway, Verizon did not give them the GOOD copper wire they wanted. Decent copper wire, with proper equipment, give speeds above 3 megabits and beyond. Verizon says that was not part of the deal. So they offered 'voice link' radio system to avoid the cost of installing copper wire. The real cost of running fiber to the house is a par with run all new modem copper wire. In other words, where that is no poles, no wire, no radio and you have to start from scratch. Fiber costs about the same. Most of the cost is equipment, labor and wooden poles. Not the actual fiver itself.n This is not a transcontinental optical system. Just fiber optic into a rural area. The big companies have some Smoke and Mirrors to make you think doing Fiber is like rocket science. Maybe it was 1995. Not today. Really, there is a surplus of transcontinental optical systems. You can get it cheap. And yes, somebody is doing it. Another story. Say 'Dark Fiber'. http://www.worldnetsolutionsinc.com/dark-fiber-optic/# My pint was that big companies are taking advantage of us consumers. If you cheat me, tell me ton my face you want to chat me, please.

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This would be posted in news, but it is a somewhat hard to follow because of the 'smoke and mirrors' of the big telecommunications monopolies. So I haven to snake it simple to explain what is going on here.

Verizon has a service called 'Voice LINK' that is a poor replacement for copper wire. Of course, that is not how they present it. The truth is the technology is retro grade to the extreme. It is a low grade radio service much inferior to copper wire. It is almost as if the phone company ripped out your landmine and gave you an old CB radio as a replacement.
For reference, here is a very recent link about the problem. Of cousrse, the problem is not new, just the review was on August 7 of this year.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/fiber-optic
Yes, the report e is about fiber optic. It is how they did not get fiber optic tat had been promised yeas gone by.
Just ask the people in New York and New Jersey about this.
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The irony in all of this is that Verizon failed to properly upgrade the entire plant with fiber optic services and yet collected money to do so -- billions per state. We discussed the situation in New Jersey where the entire state was to be upgraded to fiber and Verizon collected billions to do it. New York State's laws are somewhat DIFFERENT. However, in 2009, the New York State Department of Public Service increased basic rates to pay for massive fiber optic upgrades

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BTW: the term POTS is understood to mean a plain TELEPHONE service that can use a dial-up modem, accept a collect call, receive a FAX, make international calls and call 911 for help. The service Verizon has offered does not have these normal features.
Wanna talk about this?
Are you still waiting for fiber optic? You won't get it. Quote from: Geek-9pm on August 16, 2013, 10:19:33 PM

So I haven to snake it simple to explain what is going on here.

Huh?

Quote from: Geek-9pm on August 16, 2013, 10:19:33 PM

It is almost as if the phone company ripped out your landmine and gave you an old CB radio as a replacement.

I don't have a landmine.

I like CB radios though...Verizon, others too, offered to bring conventional telephone service to people that did not have it. Verizon claims the estimated cost was based on simple voice quality service. But customers wanted that to include a connection that would support high-speed DSL. That would HAPPEN in they were to install new high-quality copper wires
Anyway, Verizon did not give them the GOOD copper wire they wanted. Decent copper wire, with proper equipment, give speeds above 3 megabits and beyond. Verizon says that was not part of the deal. So they offered 'voice link' radio system to avoid the cost of installing copper wire.
The real cost of running fiber to the house is a par with run all new modem copper wire. In other words, where that is no poles, no wire, no radio and you have to start from scratch. Fiber costs about the same. Most of the cost is equipment, labor and wooden poles. Not the actual fiver itself.n This is not a transcontinental optical system. Just fiber optic into a rural area.
The big companies have some Smoke and Mirrors to make you think doing Fiber is like rocket science. Maybe it was 1995. Not today.
Really, there is a surplus of transcontinental optical systems. You can get it cheap. And yes, somebody is doing it. Another story. Say 'Dark Fiber'.
http://www.worldnetsolutionsinc.com/dark-fiber-optic/#
My pint was that big companies are taking advantage of us consumers. If you cheat me, tell me ton my face you want to chat me, please.

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