If you've got fiber they probably will provide VOIP phone service through the internet. No need for copper.We canceled our landline service about ten years ago. In addition to its lack of use, it kept developing static during rainy weather. I think the company was already minimizing their maintenance of this nearly obsolete infrastructure.
About four years ago, we had fiber run to the house by the same company. After they had left, I was taken back to notice that they had removed the outside telephone connection box and cut all the wiring off flush with the outside bricks. All this was with no questions asked.
On hindsight, I think I had lost the option to reactivate my traditional landline a good while ago. If I decided I wanted a landline again, they would sell a VOIP solution, using the fiber.
Can I have the phone company come out and pull everything is they discontinue service?
I was thinking the apartments where wire is haphazard going every which way on the walls…I don't think they would do anything. IME, all wiring inside the house is the homeowner's responsibility. Nobody is going to dig up outside abandoned wiring.
Dunno about where you are, but the telco here has moved to fiber for all but the "last mile". Been that way since the late 00s/early teens.Land lines are becoming things of the past. I worked as a lineman for one of the largest companies in the US and they have an active goal to eliminate them. If a line is broken, they won't repair it so if you still have one, pray nothing happens to it. For other customers, they are raising the fees for the analog line to a price most can't or won't want to pay for. I had to disconnect one older fellers line because my company raised the price for his analog line to $750 a month. He was furious too because he said he had that line for over 40 years but he wasn't paying $750 a month for a telephone line..... The infrastructure is old, very old, and they are moving towards fiber optic lines everywhere.
These 1920 apartment buildings don't have outside interfaces in the modern meaning...Phone companies are only responsible to the outside interface (ONI) all house or building wiring is the owners problem even if the wiring was run into the house by the phone company tech. Any and all work on wiring pass the ONI was billable work when I worked as an outside tech.
At the hospital it all comes in underground and through conduit to the MPOE mechanical room on the third floor... nothing outside to see and I am always having to provide access to the various providers...Phone companies are only responsible to the outside interface (ONI) all house or building wiring is the owners problem even if the wiring was run into the house by the phone company tech. Any and all work on wiring pass the ONI was billable work when I worked as an outside tech.
Yes I was referring to residential, generally single use buildings about the ONI, business or multi use locations the terminus always was/is in the equipment room at the "66" series blocks.At the hospital it all comes in underground and through conduit to the MPOE mechanical room on the third floor... nothing outside to see and I am always having to provide access to the various providers...
Long ago I canceled the traditional land line in favor of a Ooma VoIP.
Today that is the number I give when a vendor demands a phone number but I don't particularly care to be called.
Have the ringer set low. Every week or two I check for voicemail although my phone has a flashing light for that.