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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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Re: Solution in search of a problem?

said by swhx7 See Profile :

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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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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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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