[Novalug] OT landline phone service, carriers other than Verizon?

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

Aren't there government programs to provide landline phone service for
those in this kind of situation? Something like Safelink does for
wireless service for those on government assistance?

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 09:35, Miles D. Oliver <miles.d.oliver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not  the only confusion in this thread.  Doesn't appear that many of the
> potential carriers will be available to me because I can't get a wired
> Internet connection to the house and they want to do digital phone.  The
> only 'wires' into my subdivision are Verizons and the Power company.
>
> Unless what I have learned is incorrect, Verizon is all I can get.   I can
> probably save a few dollars by 'bundling' DirecTV with the phone but thats
> about it.
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Nick Danger <nick at hackermonkey.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/02/2012 04:59 PM, Omniplex wrote:
>> > Not sure about the lack of tone and being able to use 911. We have no
>> > tone and 911 doesn't work, just tried it. Usually with no tone you
>> > have no power and possibly dead pairs.
>>
>> Ignore that, I had a brain fart. I think I confused this with the cell
>> phone 911 law. Whatever I confused it with, I was wrong :-)
>>
>> Nick
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