New-fangled Phone-things

September 18th, 2009 | by Sean |

I’ve been failed pretty badly by my rather new-age phone setup over the last few days. I’ve missed important calls by an abject failure of my carriers to deliver them to my handsets.

For instance, early this week, Google Voice (or QuantumVoice, my VoIP provider) were failing to deliver calls to my ATA. Calls to my “home” number went to voicemail; which is a message that says “call my Google Voice number.”

And tonight, I discovered that my iPhone has been reporting solid 3G for 2 days straight but has been lying to me. I rebooted it this evening at a restaurant to discover I had 3 voicemails and 1 text message from YESTERDAY.

Some days, I long for old world landlines. I might just get one; Qwest is building out an ADSL2 cabinet outside my subdivision and have told me it should be online by October 7th. It might be time to migrate from cable to ADSL and pick up a landline in the process. At least then I’ll have faith that my incoming calls will complete.

Cranky grumbling complete.

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