Landline telephone service
#1
Posted 17 December 2009 - 02:05 PM
But I see Port Renfrew has had their Telus knocked out since yesterday morning, they might not get it back until tomorrow. Telus uses radio transmitters to get the regular landline service in, but a repeater tower is down, and they have not been able to get a helicopter in due to winds.
When it went down once before, Telus brought in a huge portable cell-tower and handed out loaner phones.
Tonight the Fire Dept. will distrribute some radios through the community.
#2
Posted 17 December 2009 - 02:48 PM
#3
Posted 17 December 2009 - 03:02 PM
I found it odd that Shaw entered the market so late in the game, but when I was up at UVic taking technology courses we learned that the television companies (Shaw, Rogers, etc) would be getting into the phone business and phone companies (Telus) would be getting into the television business. We laughed in disbelief at the time, and now it's actually happening.
Anyhow, Shaw is in a much better expansion position than Telus given Shaw's much larger cables. You can squeeze a lot more stuff into a thick television cable than a phone cable.
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#4
Posted 17 December 2009 - 03:24 PM
#5
Posted 17 December 2009 - 03:27 PM
#6
Posted 17 December 2009 - 04:22 PM
The cell phone is only a $10 per month pay-as-you-go.
#7
Posted 17 December 2009 - 05:57 PM
#8
Posted 17 December 2009 - 06:27 PM
#9
Posted 17 December 2009 - 07:10 PM
#10
Posted 17 December 2009 - 08:10 PM
#11
Posted 17 December 2009 - 08:51 PM
#12
Posted 17 December 2009 - 10:32 PM
I have the super cheap plan and I love that I don't have to pay extra for long distance in a whole list of countries around the world, as well as free call forwarding, call display, conference calls and all those other goodies. I used to have a couple of area codes too, and that was awesome when my boyfriend was in Georgia and a kid I mentored was in Florida. They could both call me from any phone where they lived and have it be a local call.
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#13
Posted 17 December 2009 - 10:41 PM
Does anyone place any value on Telus lines, on the fact that IP phones won't work during a power failure (unless you have some type of battery back-up)?
I love my landline, and would like them to bring back the old circlular dial phones, it added a little suspense to the call, especially when your party line listened in.
#14
Posted 17 December 2009 - 11:06 PM
I love my landline, and would like them to bring back the old circlular dial phones, it added a little suspense to the call, especially when your party line listened in.
I actually saw one of those this year. Mounted right into the wall, with the original BCTel disc in the center. I was not privileged enough to hear it ring, though.
#15
Posted 18 December 2009 - 08:07 AM
Crazy technology, eh?
http://www.timescolo...5596/story.html
TC says it's on Mt. Demur, but for the life of me I can't find any reference to Mt. Demur, on SSI or near Renfrew.
#16
Posted 18 December 2009 - 09:23 AM
#17
Posted 16 May 2013 - 07:07 AM
$380M for 250,000 subscribers. $1520 each.
http://www.thestar.c...llion_deal.html
I hope this gets turned down, we need more cell companies, not less. But if Mobilicity is losing money, and we have no bigger companies that can buy it, then... I don't know.
The deal for Mobilicity came amid speculation that all of the new wireless companies launched after the last spectrum auction may be sold.
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I thought Wind was Egyptian...
#18
Posted 16 May 2013 - 07:31 AM
#19
Posted 16 May 2013 - 07:39 AM
^ So, all of this stuff about selling bandwidth and opening up the cell phone market to more competition has been a complete and total failure then.
So far. But I think it's the foreign-ownership rules that's the problem from the start. Let Verizon or Vodafone buy Mobilicity and see how it goes.
#20
Posted 16 May 2013 - 07:49 AM
So far. But I think it's the foreign-ownership rules that's the problem from the start. Let Verizon or Vodafone buy Mobilicity and see how it goes.
You are probably right. The same could be said for airlines. I'd have no problem paying Verizon for my cell phone and flying on Alaska Airlines to Calgary.
This stuff infuriates me. We're supposed to have a "conservative" federal government that is for free markets, but they're actually just as if not more protectionist than the governments before then.
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