[ale] [OT] Building a home 'landline' using the cellular network

[Jeff Hubbs]

See, that's my problem about AT&T Uverse: power blinks; upstream goes 
dead for 10-20 minutes even though I'm UPSsed to the teeth. We pay AT&T 
obscene amounts of money but kicking over the apple cart by changing 
over to, say, Comcast Business and just doing antenna and subscriptions 
for TV isn't thrilling. If I go dish for TV I get DVR ability back but I 
don't know if I'll be paying any less than I already am for telecomm.

On 1/25/20 3:47 AM, Alex Carver via Ale wrote:
> It's funny, the ISPs that provide VoIP service via the modem jump up and
> down about users making sure there's a battery backup for maintaining
> phone service.  But, if my place loses power there's a 99.9% chance the
> box outside lost it, too and no amount of battery backup inside my place
> will keep my phone operating.
>
> On 2020-01-24 12:02, Joey Kelly via Ale wrote:
>> On Sunday, January 05, 2020 06:58:54 PM Stephen R. Blevins via Ale wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> Typically, the POTS system works when the power is out.  Just a thought.
>> Not anymore. Once they run fiber to the neighborhood, they run out there and
>> put out small gas generators in a mocking attempt to keep the POTS crap that
>> runs to your house up when a hurricane comes through. In New Orleans (where
>> I'm pretty much from, and where I'm back to since June) power was out for 5
>> days a few years ago, and all you'd get from a landline was a nasty static.
>> Phones and DSL were both out until the power came back on.
>>
>> --Joey
>>
>>
>>>   YMMV
>>>
>>> Stephen R. Blevins
>>> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>>>
>>> On 1/5/20 4:03 PM, Robert Tweedy via Ale wrote:
>>>> Hi Ale,
>>>>
>>>> I'm entertaining an idea (currently months/years out on implementation,
>>>> should it turn out to be feasible) of trying to build a simple in-home
>>>> phone system that would run over a cellular network (specifically one of
>>>> the GSM networks like AT&T or T-Mobile, so that I could simply swap out
>>>> the SIM card should I ever want to change providers), and I was wondering
>>>> if anyone else here has tried to do this and could offer any pointers.>
>>>> >From what I've looked at so far, it looks like I'd need a GSM gateway or
>>>>> similar device to ultimately make the connection to the cellular network,
>>>>> along with a Linux system running something like Asterisk or FusionPBX
>>>>> and the associated cards/hardware to interface with the POTS wiring
>>>>> inside the house (just looking for a simple party-line style setup at the
>>>>> moment; no need to handle multiple extensions/numbers and no desire to
>>>>> buy expensive VoIP/business-class phones). Any suggestions on where to
>>>>> start with something like this, or any pitfalls that you may have
>>>>> experienced when setting up something like this yourself?>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Robert
>>>>
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