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Re: PSTN.....is going to Die! PSTN is not an efficient communications delivery method which dooms it to death eventually. Thousands or millions of copper line lay dormant for much of the time so that during peak calling times, like mother's day, everyone can make their phone calls. Long distance copper is disappearing and being replaced by fiber optic cable. Eventually, fiber optic cable will come to your door in most major markets making the PSTN even more unnecessary to have. With fiber optic cable, a company can deliver telephone, cable TV, and services we don't even think about yet. Companies that provide fiber optic cable to your door will definitely NOT want to use a PSTN system to route data traffic on their networks.
Just like the TV delivery system that we have used since the 1920s (with color being added in the 1950s) is dying and will largely be gone by 2006 (when mandatory digital TV becomes law), copper transmission of voice communication is on it's last legs as is the PSTN. |
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| PSTN will die a very slow death. Remember most people still have POTS and until they switch over to VOIP on their own or are forced to at some distant time, PSTN will remain. This type of technology will have a long transitionary period. My best guess is that PSTN will be with us for at least the next 15 years or so. Just my opinion. |
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The PSTN companies that don't adapt will die. ATT was originally the "American Telephone and Telegraph" -- we don't hear of telegraphs much any more, but the telephone is still in use, right?
100 years from now ATT will be for "American Telephone and Teleportation" -- okay, maybe I'm dreamin. |
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 voiploverPremium
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Portsmouth, NH | A classic quote from the past:
"No computer will ever need more than 540k of memory"
Bill Gates |
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 ruscorpI Never Stop Posting For YouPremium
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Earth | said by voiplover:
A classic quote from the past:
"No computer will ever need more than 540k of memory"
Bill Gates
You mean:
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates (c. 1981)
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-- Thomas Watson Senior, Chairman of IBM (1943) |
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