Re: Difference between digital phone and VOIP

I don't think we need to worry about VOIP
becoming the "de facto" of the major
providers until that technology IS reliable.

We disagree on two fronts here. First, I've
worked in the telecomm industry and never
saw anything indicating a concern for
reliability. If it can be sold at a better margin
they'll go for it every time. Second, I'm not
at all worried. From my POV the move to
VoIP is a major plus. Of course, the fact
that I don't sell monitoring has a lot to do
with that. :^)

The big backbone providers (Ma Bell and
family) can't afford to dump everyone over
to a new technology until it's achieved a
certain level of reliability...

They're already beginning to do it, whether
the customers know it or not. (cf: my reference
to long distance carriers earlier). They are
also offering all sorts of package deals to lure
customers away from analog.

I dunno about the US, but up here, if reliability
levels aren't government-mandated, they're
certainly government-encouraged...

This is the USA with Dubya at the helm. Forget
about standards, QOS, reliablility, etc. The
only issue is whether they made a sufficient
deposit in Shrub National Bank.

Telus, for example, couldn't just start pulling
up landlines and pushing everyone onto VOIP...

Same here. Instead they offer loss leader pricing
to get vict... er, customers to sign up for the service.

... the public outcry would force all levels of
government to intervene.

There's the difference. This is America Under The
Shrub! The current government turns a deaf ear
to the will of the people. In fact, our National Idiot
actually believes that he is in the White House
*despite* losing the popular vote by over half a
million votes because *God* put him there. He
cites the Biblical Passage in Mark 5:21-43 to
explain why it's OK for him to ignore the will of
the people concerning little matters like Gulf War II,
the economy, the ecology of the earth, etc.

Ah, but I digress. At any rate, VoIP is coming and
it's a much bigger wave than we might like to think.

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Robert L Bass

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