 DaveDudeNo Fear
join:1999-09-01
New Jersey
kudos:1 | innovation , what innovation ? Phones havent changed in 30 years, Prices have never gone down. It wasnt until voip that the phone companies started caring. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | Thats cause VoIP is actual competition. |
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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | reply to DaveDude
said by DaveDude:Phones havent changed in 30 years, Prices have never gone down. It wasnt until voip that the phone companies started caring. Hmmm...I have a touch tone phone with 'memory' from around 1980, and it is *very* different than the phone I bought a year or two ago.
Of course, I also have a phone from 1965 (at least that is the tag on the back). Can not do touch tone, but it is the best phone for just talking on. And unlike the newer phones, it is a bullet proof phone from before the break-up days and fancy junk from China, now that IS different.
Or are you talking about the fact that most POTS phones are still connected to an analog cable made of twisted copper pairs going to the central office and thus having a lot more controllability?
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DaveDudeNo Fear
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| said by RayW:said by DaveDude:Phones havent changed in 30 years, Prices have never gone down. It wasnt until voip that the phone companies started caring. Hmmm... Or are you talking about the fact that most POTS phones are still connected to an analog cable made of twisted copper pairs going to the central office and thus having a lot more controllability? yup... Cant compare to digital phone in office buildings. Why arent there home digital phones , as opposed to pots. Why do i have to hear touchtones, that work sometimes? There needs to be a home switch option.
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| said by DaveDude:yup... Cant compare to digital phone in office buildings. Why arent there home digital phones , as opposed to pots. Why do i have to hear touchtones, that work sometimes? There needs to be a home switch option. ISDN has been available for many years now. If you can get an ISDN phone, there you go.
Before AT&T was broken up, they were gearing up for a big rollout of ISDN, and I'm sure a nice hefty lease of ISDN phones to end users. |
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DaveDudeNo Fear
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| said by smcallah:said by DaveDude:yup... Cant compare to digital phone in office buildings. Why arent there home digital phones , as opposed to pots. Why do i have to hear touchtones, that work sometimes? There needs to be a home switch option. ISDN has been available for many years now. If you can get an ISDN phone, there you go. Before AT&T was broken up, they were gearing up for a big rollout of ISDN, and I'm sure a nice hefty lease of ISDN phones to end users. But that was in 90's right, what has happened since, i really wish there was a home switch option. Where you got a dsl-to switch at your house.
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