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swhx7
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join:2006-07-23
Elbonia
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Re: Solution in search of a problem? 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
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
| Re: Solution in search of a problem? 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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join:2002-01-23
Birmingham, AL | Re: Solution in search of a problem? Why? What if I only need 3 or 4 lines? Keep it simple if at all possible. | |
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phoneboy3
@shawcable.net
| 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
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County
| 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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join:2002-09-22
Naperville, IL
clubs:
·AT&T Midwest
| Re: Solution in search of a problem? 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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