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rileyjam514
There You Go Again...
join:2005-06-26
Kearny, NJ
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Re: VoIP isn't POTS....
The service works in terms of making standard voice calls, and in that respect it is a valid POTS replacement.
In the respect that people expect any other services to work over Earthlink's TrueVoice, like faxes, home alarm systems, dial-up modems and such, it is in no way capable of being called a POTS replacement.
That's the thing about POTS, VoIP and LPV. None can do all of the features without some adjustments out-of-the-box. POTS doesn't have VoIP features, VoIP doesn't have emergency power backup, and LPV can't handle anything but standard voice calls.
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Matt
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join:2003-07-20
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said by rileyjam514  :Well, what I mean is that VoIP has been advertised and presented as a full and valid replacement for existing telephone service that American customers have come to expect over the years. People don't expect that when they switch providers, they'll need to mess around with networking equipment or play with their demarcation point. Even that, the demarcation point, is something that most people look at and are just dumbstruck as to what the heck it does. THAT seamless replacement of phone service is what I'm talking about.... the expectation that things will "just work" 99.9999% of the time. Did you completely gloss over this part of the article?
The interesting bit is that the bundle uses Covad's line-powered voice, which needs no consumer side hardware, works through every jack in the home, and receives its power from the jack just like regular phone service&$#46 The service functions much like typical POTS in that regard until it hits Covad's new Nokia DSLAMs, with traffic routed over Covad's nationwide UNE-L network, avoiding bell infrastructure.
No need for the consumer to "fiddle" at all. | |
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