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Re: Doomed Wireless is bunk. The spectrum is only getting more and more congested as usage goes up. In Amsterdam, you will typically see 10 wireless networks or more from within your own home and getting your own to work is usually a nightmare.
And VoIP really is the future. Providers all over the world are already moving everything except the last mile to VoIP, and many providers (among which is my employer) are providing DSL+VoIP (Including FttC VDSL) or CableIP+VoIP (Including FttC Eurodocsis 3.0) or FttH+VoIP.
In fact, where I am, the ILEC is still offering ISDN or analog, there are two competitors offering analog on a services from them, tech from the ILEC basis, and at least a dozen companies offering (your choice) DSL or Cable Internet, with VoIP add-ons if you want them (Full disclosure: My employer among them). Analog+DSL is so far in the minority on new installs it's not even a blip.
What provides the IP is entirely and completely independent of whether your phone runs over the analog copper you already have, or over VoIP. That's the beauty of an all-IP world. Certainly there needs to be a push toward FttH, which is happening (everybody who is now pushing FttC does that at least partially so that those last links from Curb to Home can eventually be replaced by fiber...), but the move from copper to VoIP is entirely independent of that. The best scenario is probably simply to let the market go VoIP on its own and when the critical mass falls below a certain point drop the requirements for the maintenance of the analog phone network, probably to be replaced with a requirement for the maintenance of the copper-pair-for-DSL network. | | |
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| said by JasperJ :
Wireless is bunk. The spectrum is only getting more and more congested as usage goes up. In Amsterdam, you will typically see 10 wireless networks or more from within your own home and getting your own to work is usually a nightmare.
I think fiberguy meant wireless phones, like cell phones.
People are dropping landlines for cell phones and going cell only. In contrast, most voip users also have a cell phone, but not vice versa. | |
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kudos:3 | reply to JasperJ
I am talking about wireless phones.. yes.
And, like I said, you still have to have copper to have Voip (or fiber, depending) but that remains to be seen if they put teeth into that.
However, there is no law or anything that can force a carrier to migrate from copper to fiber.
Still, Voip isn't the future as the main product.. wireless phones are.. All this would really mandate change for is the central office equipment.. instead of hard switching equipment, it would be soft switching.. no major change and a worthless unfunded mandate if they were to even get close to pushing this..
In time, things will naturally migrate over to VoIP.. they're already doing it now. | |
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