| Enough Pairs With all the people switching to VOIP or cell phones there should be plenty of pairs. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by Claussner0:With all the people switching to VOIP or cell phones there should be plenty of pairs. Its kind of funny and pathetic that ATT is betting on its competitors to take away ATT's customers so ATT can compeat with the competitors. Seems like TV+phone+internet customer is better than just phone customer to ATT, but ATT is betting on the just phones to leave, sort of encouraging competition by allowing a inferior product to exist. TV adoption rate goes up, just POTS goes down but ATT is no investors notice it. |
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An "inferior product"? How so? If it's fiber to a node providing the service, with the last bit on copper, so what? What, you think it's any big trick for Ma Bell to run the last bit of fiber later? This is the fly in the ointment of gripes about "Project Lightspeed".
as I've mentioned before here, AT&T seems to be laying a lot of fiber lately. Why would they be doing that? I bet the bright among us can guess.
You all seem to have the idea that Ma Bell is somehow unable to comprehend it's business and how to go about it. You dont seem to get the idea that old Ma has been around for over 100 years and is currently the largest IBOC in the US. And they are on the verge of putting Ma Bell back together again.
How, I ask, did they do this if they are idots "going down the drain"?
And, say what you will about old Ma and her "inferior product" your POTS line, with very few exceptions, allways works, just as they did during the massive power failure in 2003. VOIP is the "inferior product" because it requires YOU to provide power and a WORKING internet connection.
It will be interesting to see exactly what old Ma does in the end, after all the babbling, speculation, whining and teeth gnashing.
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| True VOIP requires you to provide power via utility company but new fiber to the curb ...guess what that remote terminal or Dslam has to be powered to in Bell South's markets I see them tied to a power meter from guess who the local Utility power company. So only POTS is reliable because they power that themselves but the new fiber to the curb is not so great if it depends on the power on that street. What if it goes out? oops back to cable oh no they are out too.
why don't all of them provide there own power. end of sentence. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by Name 2 :
True VOIP requires you to provide power via utility company but new fiber to the curb ...guess what that remote terminal or Dslam has to be powered to in Bell South's markets I see them tied to a power meter from guess who the local Utility power company. So only POTS is reliable because they power that themselves but the new fiber to the curb is not so great if it depends on the power on that street. What if it goes out? oops back to cable oh no they are out too.
why don't all of them provide there own power. end of sentence.
Exactly, RTs and field equipment isnt fed off of diesel or seperate power lines coming from CO (altho it shud). If ur on a RT and power outage, ur screwed, now how many ppl r on early 1st gen digital unDSLable RTs that are local power utility fed with (hopefully) 8 hrs battery backup? There is no law that pots needs more than 4-8 hrs of backup power, even then some RTs dont have working or existant backup batteries due to vandalism or neglect. The generator forever was in the overengineered (in a good way) days of cold war nuclear distruction days when Bell cared abourt quality (it was practically part of the us govt at the time), now its a for profit corporation, nuff said. IMO RTs need to be fed by seperate power grid with optionally redundant power links (well if the power follows the fiber and fiber is cut, safe to assume power can be cut too, what point is a running RT if it has no data connection? Correct me if im wrong but RTs dont have redundant backbone lines rite? Also natural gas (if avaible) or diesel or solar wit overnigh batteries generators would be perfect or maybe hydrogen fuel cell (last longer less maintence, 7 day fuel supply or longer required, no moving parts) if not on a telco power grid. |
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