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comment on communication and POTS
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Dear Ken;
    In reference to the POTS lines for communications, to paraphrase a line from The Green Mile, it's a "dead technology walking."  I have had two customers (so far) who had problems with their POTS lines.  Many of my other customers had already jumped over to VoIP for the alleged cost savings.  The typical drop to the house for the past 20 years or so, has been a four pair copper cable (if you looked at it on end, it was rectangular shaped.)  That was the setup that both customers had.  When they called Verizon and reported phone line trouble, they came in and installed FiOS (at no charge) just for "telephone only."  The customers were unaware that the POTS lines were gone.  And in both cases, the Verizon technician either didn't recognize the RJ31X jack that would accomplish line seizure on alarm, or just didn't look and merely back-fed the artificial dial tone created by the modem to the house phones.  It's bad enough when Comcast or Optimum Online does stupid stuff like this, but Verizon is the offspring of "Mother Bell" who developed the technology.  People get pissed off at the alarm installers when we charge them to fix a problem caused by one of the VoIP providers.  THAT is why I have made the decision to push as many of my customers over to GSM as possible, BEFORE February 2014.
    Make no mistake, to paraphrase the Beatle song played backwards on the old LP turntables, "POTS is dead, miss him, miss him."  Even now, as people have trouble with their POTS lines, Verizon is replacing it with fiber optic.  And that is how POTS will go quietly into that good night.  If the world really does end on 12/21/2012, then I guess this will all be a moot point.
John from NJ
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Ken
    Verizon did install the POTS lines after about 3 weeks of excuses. When I unplugged the FiOS box, it went blank - there was no backup battery inside. Somebody has to die, unable to call 911 until we get laws on power backup. Do we really need the government dictate everything like in communist country?
Dusan
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comment on electronic contract
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    My signature and e-signature are obviously very different from each other. However, they each are consistent on their own. Compare all my signatures and they are all clearly similar. Compare all my e-signatures and they are all clearly similar. It wouldn’t be difficult at all for a comparisons of e-signatures to  confirm validity of an e-signature.
Andy