Mr Matt
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Eustis, FL
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| FCC, don't put all your eggs in one basket!  What do you do when your broadband service fails. Pick up your land line and call your ISP, unless of course you are using VoIP. Then you suck wind and wait until your ISP gets around to fixing the problem. Then of course there is the matter of hackers. Once all voice communications are migrated to VoIP the hackers can come out from under their rocks and begin wire tapping America. Then there is the matter of sending a FAX. With VoIP lots of luck. The FCC must be thinking like Microsoft. When Microsoft finally patches one of their operating systems, until it is more or less reliable, they introduce another bag of bugs. If it works don't fix it. The PSTN has evolved over a period of more than One Hundred Years. Lets get all of the bugs out of the broadband networks before placing voice communication in the VoIP Basket. |
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| But what happens if your POTS line breaks? Back before I had a cell phone, that meant walking to the payphone in a park down the street to call for repair. And I had to do that a couple times. |
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Lazlow
join:2006-08-07
Saint Louis, MO | reply to Mr Matt
Mr Matt
What they are talking about is not VOIP over the internet. They are talking VOIP like CC, Charter, etc are using, on an isolated network. Faxes work fine on this type of VOIP, essentially all this does is move the digital part (all LD and most other calls are digital at some point) closer to the user. |
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