On Aug 5, 4:22*pm, N8N wrote:
make them put in one of those grey demarc boxes where the wire enters
the house, that way they can say with 100% certainty that the failure
is Not Their Problem by simply plugging a hard wired phone into the
demarc with the line going into the house disconnected.

There's a demarc box in the basement already.

When the phone goes out, they plug directly into the demarc box. STILL
DEAD.

Tell Verizon that. They STILL THREATEN.

Oh but for the good old days of Ma Bell... At least when there was one
big company, the government could regulate them and force them to
provide a certain level of service. Now it's deregulated and these
baby Bells have you over a barrel. There's no competition, no choice.
Verizon owns ALL the wires in the ground in the area. You get phone
from Verizon or you don't get a phone.