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I feel your pain!
I run my business out of my home. A few years ago every time it rained our land line (AT&T), which has also been my business line for 22 years, would get really bad static and the DSL service would drop. The phone service would become almost unusable. I would call (on my cell) and they would come some days later and say they fixed it but it never got better until it was dry for a few days. The DSL service eventually became unusable and I had to drop it for a cable modem (Comcast, Ugh). One weekend after a pretty good storm the land line went completely dead. I called and made as much noise as I could repeating the trouble we had been having for over a year. It took them 6 days to get a senior service tech out and after some troubleshooting he came to the conclusion that......wait for it....... the line was bad (No S**T) and that there were no other good pairs available. He told me they had no plans to repair the overhead line and that they wanted to get rid of the land lines and have everyone on VoIP by 2020. The best part was that they could not even get me VoIP because it was not yet available in my area.
I run my business out of my home. A few years ago every time it rained our land line (AT&T), which has also been my business line for 22 years, would get really bad static and the DSL service would drop. The phone service would become almost unusable. I would call (on my cell) and they would come some days later and say they fixed it but it never got better until it was dry for a few days. The DSL service eventually became unusable and I had to drop it for a cable modem (Comcast, Ugh). One weekend after a pretty good storm the land line went completely dead. I called and made as much noise as I could repeating the trouble we had been having for over a year. It took them 6 days to get a senior service tech out and after some troubleshooting he came to the conclusion that......wait for it....... the line was bad (No S**T) and that there were no other good pairs available. He told me they had no plans to repair the overhead line and that they wanted to get rid of the land lines and have everyone on VoIP by 2020. The best part was that they could not even get me VoIP because it was not yet available in my area.