While browsing Yahoo! News, I came across the following article as to why our friggin’ phone line didn’t work this morning:
Widespread outage for AT&T’s digital phone lines
By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer Peter Svensson, Ap Technology Writer – Tue May 25, 4:48 pm ET
NEW YORK – AT&T’s new digital home phone service failed across the country Tuesday, illustrating continuing reliability issues with Internet-based phone service.
Customers of AT&T Inc.’s U-Verse Voice said their landline phones have had no dial tones since the morning. Reached by cell phone, the customers said those who call them get a message that the line has been disconnected. Support personnel are telling customers that a server crash brought down U-Verse Voice in AT&T’s entire 22-state local-phone service area.
AT&T spokeswoman Mari Melguizo said the outage started at about 10:30 a.m., and service was restored to most subscribers at 2:45 p.m. She said the extent the outage was unknown.
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As mentioned in one of my previous blog entries, an young Asian man was knocking from door to door. At that time, he was a sales representative for AT&T. He was looking for moi! But for whatever reason, I knew better and referred the conversation with Paw by my side because he is the homeowner and primary account holder of the land lines. So you damn Homeland Security spooks better back off, now!
Now, this went on for about a couple of hours with him stepping indoors, which he is not supposed to do. He explained the features and benefits of reducing long distance calls with digital phones and faster internet service by switching to AT&T U-verse. Their fiber optic cables were better than the copper wires by Comcast, by the way and that convinced me.
But in order to set up the product, a credit check had to be run and that meant Paw giving out his personal details over the phone. I knew this AT&T, being so popular as it is, has something to do with privacy issues and perhaps Obama and pals snooping around for more data than necessary. The spook gave coded messages to this contact via his cellphone and said something along the line of `happy`. He turned and asked if I was happy.
So you see people, anytime you WANT something from the system, you will be SLAVES to their technology. You will have no cable for viewing television, no phone for calling in case of emergency, no internet for reading articles online and basically, left with talking to real people. And by not paying electricity to run these digital gadgets, there is no other way to communicate with the outside world. Scary.
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