AT&T is using old people to market their new cellular-to-POTS bridge product.

The premise is she needs something as reliable as a landline, because during California wildfires the cell towers and power go down.

Maybe someone should have whispered to her that this product uses the same cell towers, or equally-vulnerable broadband. I could not stop laughing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud2LaFDEUho

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GolfPopper a day ago | parent | next [-]

From the user guide[1], it appears to be a dual-WAN setup that uses both cellular and broadband. Not as good as decent POTS, but better than just cellular or broadband.

https://www.att.com/scmsassets/support/other/att-phone-advan...

	▲	lakeviewterrace 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My understanding is it's wireless first, with failover to broadband. The broadband connection is optional. They cannot manage the QoS over the broadband link. My personal experience is any power outage lasting more than a few hours is also going to take out your community's broadband.

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sidewndr46 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This makes me think that the marketing at AT&T is outsourced to a group that has no idea how the service works.