They are turning off landlines in 2025!

[rdenney]

So from your description dropping Direct TV and adding Starlink plus YouTube TV saves a little money. The savings may not be transformative, but improved internet vs current service is.

I wonder about loosing your place in line for fiber when it becomes available. Seems once fiber is in your area they'll want all the customers they can get.

Also unless the cost of keeping the microwave service to keep on the list is a financial strain, you'd be so much happier from the increased usefulness of Starlink in the meantime you'd not regret it. Plus if next year turns into two or three years before you get fiber even more so.

The issue with being in line is whether they will pay for the lateral to our house using the grant money that they have or require me to pay for it. I'd prefer the former

Yeah, if the project stalls we'll have to do something.

Rick "spending too much" Denney

 

[Timcognito]

Rick worth a read. FYI

Starlink is very good

I received my Starlink package Wednesday. It took about 30 minutes to set it up counting drilling to get the cable inside. The cable that ships with it is 15 meters (for the metric fans) which I think is a little short. With that cable length there is only a slight obstruction from one tree. I...

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[Willem]

The issue with being in line is whether they will pay for the lateral to our house using the grant money that they have or require me to pay for it. I'd prefer the former

Yeah, if the project stalls we'll have to do something.

Rick "spending too much" Denney

Our fiber connection was installed for free and all the way into the house. They had some clever modern machine where they would shoot a cable underground from the street all the way under the driveway and onto the door. In principle this was quick and indeed it was for the neighbours, but in our case they hit a drain and had to repair that as well.

 

[Blumlein 88]

Our fiber connection was installed for free and all the way into the house. They had some clever modern machine where they would shoot a cable underground from the street all the way under the driveway and onto the door. In principle this was quick and indeed it was for the neighbours, but in our case they hit a drain and had to repair that as well.

Same here. That part to house took about 10 minutes.

 

[BlackTalon]

Got a letter from Verizon saying our copper is going away in a month, and can be replaced with fiber. Need to decide if we will just let it go away, as it now costs $110/ mo. But some of my relatives still call on it, as they are not always calling to just talk to a specific person. It is more complicated for them when they have to decide to call me, my wife or my son.

I think we will lose some of the emergency aspects, as now we'll need a powered box inside the house. Our copper line has only gone down once in 26 years.

 

[rcstevensonaz]

Got a letter from Verizon saying our copper is going away in a month, and can be replaced with fiber. Need to decide if we will just let it go away, as it now costs $110/ mo. But some of my relatives still call on it, as they are not always calling to just talk to a specific person. It is more complicated for them when they have to decide to call me, my wife or my son.

I think we will lose some of the emergency aspects, as now we'll need a powered box inside the house. Our copper line has only gone down once in 26 years.

Keep in mind that you can always transfer your phone number over to a different provider, including a much lower cost VoIP provider or a cell phone provider so that you do not lose the original phone number.

Written by a kid who is still pissed off my parents did not warn me before they disconnected the phone number that I grew up with. Hell yea, I would have kept that number active... if nothing else than nostalgia.