On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:27:18 -0400, mm
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:00:47 GMT, Jethro wrote:

Whenever I have a power outage, I also lose all of my phones - dial
tone and all. If some calls me, a recording says all circuits are
busy - which of course they are not. This has been happening for over
a year now - during which time we have had several outages.

This loss of phones is for all my phones, some of which are cordless,
and two of which are corded.

When power is restored, sure enough, phone service becomes restored
some 30 or so minutes later.

My immediate neighbor does not lose his phone during the same outages.
Yet his immediate neighbor does just like I do. This same random
choice of working phones versus non-working phones occurs throughout
this community of some 100 houses.

All I get is a song and dance from the phone company. They say they
will look into it, but do not.

No solution for you, jut a story.

When a storm knocked a small telephone pole down, so that they cable
for our 109 houses went into the stream, the phone company came out I
think but didn't tell me, though I had called.

I should say that all the phones were working fine, even with the wire
under water when it rained.

When I called again a couple months later, after that I could see
where the electric company had come out and marked wires, to say they
weren't theirs or something.

It took 2 1/2 years before they replaced the pole.

I had called a total of 4 times.

I wouldn't have kept calling them if they had acknowledged any of my
calls and told me it could take years. I could live with that. The
phone worked fine, although I did suspect that my low dial-up speeds
were because of it, but I'm convinced now that they weren't.

I have to tell you - your story hit my funny bone. God, I sure hope
my problem doesn't descend to anything like yours. In any case, I am
thinking of changing phone service to cable. I just don't know how
that would adapt to my present Verizon system, or if it would do me
any good.


Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Jethro