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Re: Suddenily it all makes sense! said by jtorre69:Avon, you couldn't be further from the facts if you wanted to. Sure I could... 
said by jtorre69:AT&T is running two networks on the same last mile copper. If you have a pots line, and have a dslam rt in the field you have 2 simultaneus networks running at the same time. Okay, let's look at it this way; you "turn off POTS" in favor of VOIP in an area served by DSL or U-verse. What exactly do you get to turn off or remove? Remember, if DSL or U-verse is not available in an area, the whole broadband VOIP argument falls apart.
One advantage you would have if you didn't have "POTS" running on the subscriber line is you could use more advanced signaling to provide greater bandwidth to the subscriber, but AT&T could do that today with U-verse, there is nothing stopping them from doing so.
What this is really about, which is what I was alluding to in my original post, is the PSTN portion of the equation and how the country is linked together. |
