Matt
Gone playing Dragon Age Origins
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Jamestown, NC
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1 edit |  Solution in search of a problem?
I can't think of a gap this is supposed to fill. Most of the people I know with landlines are older folks, or families who keep it around for an emergency. What possible reason could there be to pay more money to send an SMS message to a landline? Anyone?
The ILECs need to stop investing in POTS and copper and move on already. |
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swhx7
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join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Consumers are giving up landlines, but telcos are still selling them to businesses. A business or other organization will have its own pbx or whatever in the building, but then it goes to a line in the street.
And as someome else pointed out, once the wireless calls come from the tower they go into copper or fiber. |
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Matt
Gone playing Dragon Age Origins
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Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
| said by swhx7  :Consumers are giving up landlines, but telcos are still selling them to businesses. A business or other organization will have its own pbx or whatever in the building, but then it goes to a line in the street. And as someome else pointed out, once the wireless calls come from the tower they go into copper or fiber. If a business is tying POTS lines into a PBX they need to leave the 1970's. Multiple lines pulled into a PBX are done via digital circuit (like a T-1, or fractional variant) rather than traditional analog POTS lines.
I think folks are confusing a telco's data network with the POTS phone system. |
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phoneboy3
@shawcable.net
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They stopped investing in POTs years ago. The problem is they have this 100 year old infrastructure that is too old to do much more with and too expensive to do a forklift upgrade on. They should have been spending more to upgrade the infrastructure to fiber but instead chose to pocket the profits. Now that the cable companies have been able to match their service on a more modern infrastructure their day of reconing is here. |
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CylonRed
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Bloom County
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I am one young one who does not want my landline to go especially for 911 service. POTs is far more stable with no batteries to ever worry about than cell phone. My brother called my mom last Christmas on his cell - could only hear every other word.
Phone line is just over $31 and for 911 when I need it - it is worth it. |
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insomniac
Oh Yeah
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Naperville, IL
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| said by CylonRed :I am one young one who does not want my landline to go especially for 911 service. POTs is far more stable with no batteries to ever worry about than cell phone. Same here. 27 years old, have had a POTS line for six years, not getting rid of it.
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If everything seems to be going well, you've obviously overlooked something. |
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clecssuck
join:2002-01-23
Birmingham, AL | reply to Matt
Why? What if I only need 3 or 4 lines? Keep it simple if at all possible. |
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA
·Cox HSI
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The majority of business is small business and VoIP doesn't have required reliability. Given my experience with Vonage and Viatalk (both horrible) I certainly wouldn't have my small business relying on it (especially for the burglar alarm and faxing). I bend over for Verizon POTS and while I don't like the price, it's NEVER down, unlike VoIP.
At home it's a different story, while I'll never go back to VoIP, my trusty 1997 era VoCable with Cox is working great. If Cox moves from VoCable to VoIP in my market I'll go back to POTS. |
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