| Something tells me... This means higher taxes for VOIP lines. |
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| You know that will be the case!  Everything means higher taxes these days. |
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 ·MSN
·Brand X Internet
·DSL EXTREME
2 edits | said by caseywor:You know that will be the case! Everything means higher taxes these days. WRONG!
Right now the telcos have to provide TWO infrastructures on the same wire-both fairly incompatble. By changing to just IP, the telcos could use the entire bandwidth available in the copper pair to your house. This would allow DSL to work faster and over greater distances. They would also be able to retire their Central Office switches-resulting is less maintenance and also the need for two sets of service people. This is an idea that is a long time overdue. |
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nonymousPremium
join:2003-09-08
Glendale, AZ Reviews:
 ·Callcentric
| said by qworster:said by caseywor:You know that will be the case! Everything means higher taxes these days. WRONG! Right now the telcos have to provide TWO infrastructures on the same wire-both fairly incompatble. By changing to just IP, the telcos could use the entire bandwidth available in the copper pair to your house. This would allow DSL to work faster and over greater distances. They would also be able to retire their Central Office switches-resulting is less maintenance and also the need for two sets of service people. This is an idea that is a long time overdue. New switches do not require much maintanence. There is hardly two sets of servie of service people anymore. With cutbacks everyone tends to get trained on everything.
You would just replace the switches with routers. The wiring or fiber would still extend that last mile needing servicing.
Plus the government would still require 99.9999 uptime on phone for 911 service. So instead of just the CO battery or remote pairgain batteries all the end users would also have batteries. The poor end user could not be expected to replace those. First lawsuit the FCC would mandate the phone companies send techs out to check batteries at everyones house on a yearly basis. sarcasm  Still all thiose end user battery backups would be a nightmare. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | And the environmentalists will go nuts because Roy the redneck incinerated his battery in a barrel in his back yard or claims a meth head stole from the side of his house to pawn to a motorcycle shop. |
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NormanSPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:4 Reviews:
·SONIC.NET
·Pacific Bell - SBC
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said by qworster:By changing to just IP, the telcos could use the entire bandwidth available in the copper pair to your house. This would allow DSL to work faster and over greater distances. Voice hardly takes up any bandwidth. And ADSL limitation, not lack of available bandwidth on the copper, keeps the speed down. In the legacy SBC regions of AT&T they still have not deployed ADSL2, or other faster DSL systems. That can go faster on the same copper.
In any case bandwidth isn't the distance killer, attenuation over long runs of copper is what limits distance.
They would also be able to retire their Central Office switches-resulting is less maintenance and also the need for two sets of service people. This is an idea that is a long time overdue.
If you are speaking of the split of POTS and Internet at the DSLAM; I suppose they wouldn't "rewire" so much as just remove the POTS side of the circuit.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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| And for obvious reasons, the same technicians rewire DSL connections as do analog or ISDN lines. It's all just playing with copper pairs. |
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