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tc1uscg

join:2005-03-09

Guantanamo 13 recommendations tc1uscg Member And what if that happened to a non-cable Telco?



So, does the FCC treat cable phone the same way? I don't recall they are. So, there use to be a time when there was a major phone outage, you could expect the FCC to show up with invoice in hand to FINE said telco for it's outage. I remember a 3 hour, 30k call blockage in a Sprint long distance switch one time (because of a bad circuity card in the DMS250 switch).. don't ask how I know, and it cost Sprint over a million bucks in fines.So, does the FCC treat cable phone the same way? I don't recall they are.

ARGONAUT

Have a nice day.

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join:2006-01-24

New Albany, IN 9 recommendations ARGONAUT Premium Member Problems?

caseywor

join:2004-04-19

Mobile, AL 8 recommendations caseywor Member Have they tried turning it off and back on again? In the spirit of "The IT Crowd" (funny British comedy, look it up on Netflix) I have to ask if Comcast has tried turning it off and back on again? Nuggits

join:2008-10-03

Allston, MA 8 recommendations Nuggits Member If there was ever an argument to be made... Stuff like this is why exclusivity agreements need to be nullified. Having a single point of failure for critical systems on a National scale with no other options shouldn't even be possible.

Economist

The economy, stupid

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join:2015-07-10

united state ·AT&T FTTP

3 edits 2 recommendations Economist Premium Member And how much do they charge for it? My VOIPo service I use at my business is $8 a line and has never gone down since getting it in early 2009. If there is an ISP related outage, failover works great, needed it once when FiOS went down for a few hours. These small businesses should reconsider using Comcast for their phone service. And all this POTS reliability crap is a myth. Every time it would rain my customers were treated to a good dose of crackling and static and finally a, let me call you back, hopefully I will get a better connection...very professional. Not having to run the foreign telephone bank gauntlet for 90 minutes whenever I have a question is just a bonus of dumping rip-off Verizon POTS (and big telecom like cable Comcast in general). GusHerb94

join:2011-11-04

Chicago, IL 2 recommendations GusHerb94 Member And this is why... I use Callcentric for our business voice needs instead of Comcast! This is like the third or fourth time in two years they’ve had a major voice outage!

I still have to use Comcast for internet since that’s the ONLY internet available at that location in the rural town of....errr middle of CHICAGO. Since they’re notoriously unreliable I have a backup T1114 on Verizon which includes its own voice service we can use in the off chance Callcentric is the one that goes down (which has only happened very briefly about 3 times in 5 years)

Red Hazard

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join:2012-07-21

O Fallon, IL 2 recommendations Red Hazard Premium Member Lack of qualified personnel The over qualified janitor could have quickly fixed it but he's not in the union so they won't let him.

FureverFurry

RIP Daphne: 3/12/05 - 6/19/12

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join:2012-02-20

49xxx 2 recommendations FureverFurry Premium Member "It makes you wonder ..." To quote from that Comcast advert: "It makes you wonder ... shouldn't we get our phone service and internet from the same place?" Yup ... and it's not from Comcast, lol.



And just where does Comcast itself get their phone service from ?