 maartenaElmoPremium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
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 ·AT&T U-Verse
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| What would it take? You would need broadband to every single village and farm this country has!
Granted, you'd probably only need 128 kbps (Vonage uses 90 Kbps by default) for a voice connection, but since even a farm house out in the boonies can get two analog lines these days (and quite few do, a farm is a business and many of them have been using faxes, and/or have a second line for their dialup) you would probably at least need 256 kbps to every single house in America. And since you are at it, why stop there. If you have the technology to do 256 kbps, there is a good chance it can do 1.5 Mbps.... soooo in a nutshell, to switch to VOIP, you would need broadband everywhere.
And then of course you would need it to be reliable. During Katrina, the last thing to go down in New Orleans was analog phone service, and it was the first thing to come back up. In the areas that weren't flooded, analog POTS lines often stayed up for all of the weeks power was actually out.
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