Comcast Business

I saw elsewhere that comcast has been fucked up all over the East Coast today.

They are always sending me junk mail,  never dabbled in their product.

For "landline"  I use "StraightTalk Home-Phone".  $15 / month for unlimited domestic calls.  I ported my old verizon / Ma Bell phone # over.

It's actually a landline-over-wireless technology.  The little black box transceives from the local cel tower and you plug your old-fashioned wired / cordless phones in.

Been about a year + and the thing always works.  Except during power outage;  only a couple hours on the built-in battery backup.

Thanks Stu

Thanks Dr. Zaius

Phones were out most of the day. Back  on 3:15pm

Perhaps you can do a "call-forward" from biz # to a cel-phone # ??

That's a possible solution.

Sorry for your inconvenience.

I had long-running difficulties with the old landline,  actual twisted-pair copper wire.  Audio quality kept degrading. The verizon bill for single land-line went up to around $70 / month over a few years.  Plus they were evil bastards if you were a few days late on the bill.

The 'StraightTalk' thing is about the cheapest ($15 / month) equivalent.  It is a prepaid card,  so if you space on it,  your Circuit's Dead Major Tom.  But then you add another card and everything is normal.  The caller ID just gives a #,  no name.  Customer service is in Costa Rica or Sri Lanka,  I forget. But I haven't needed to call them much.  Just when I ported over the old #.

It does have voice mail,  call forwarding, various other features.  The little black box sits near a window facing East (the tower is 4-5 miles in that direction).  I'm tuned into a Verizon channel on that tower.

I was skeptical at first,  but now like it just fine. $50 for the box, $15 / month.  No worries when trees blow down across the phone wire.

https://shop.straighttalk.com/shop/en/straighttalk/homephones

I think that is their website.

The little black box is the same manufacturer that makes the same thing for various wireless companies at a higher price, "Hueeii" or similar.

There is an antenna port if you're far from a Tower.

#comcastdontgiveafuck

*sorry, tim.