VoIP And Cell Phones Eroding Traditional Telecoms 390
Lullabye_Muse writes "Yahoo! reports that telecoms in Europe and U.S. are losing in response to people switching their home phones for cellphones and dial up to cable modems. More info on specific VoIP discussed in latter part of article. The trend seems to becoming widespread, I guess 10 years and all the old wires are gonna start to be taken down."
Good (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, cell-phone coverage could be bett--
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Re:A land-line...? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good (Score:2, Funny)
*WHAT!*
*ARE YOU STILL THERE?*
Imagine that (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good (Score:5, Funny)
He kept running into the lameness filter.
Re:I *don't* have a landline phone anymore. (Score:3, Funny)
Those lines are not leaving (Score:2, Funny)
Another reason the land lines will not be going anywhere is that there are some places that wireless phones just do not work. An example of this is in Spring Valley, Ca, which is part of the San Diego County. I had a wireless phone that just would not work in that area. I had verizon at the time, so who knows, it might work now.
Also, remember during 9/11 how the cellphone networks were not prepared for the load? Well, I am fairly sure this would not be a problem for the old pots system. Like before, not positive but pretty sure.
I still have a land line because I use speakeasy DSL. Great ISP by the way.
Brendan
Re:A land-line...? (Score:2, Funny)
oldskool (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cost (Score:3, Funny)
Some people live in areas where the reception is either poor or non-existant. When I did tech support, I talked to every one of them.
You were lucky! (Score:3, Funny)
Where I live we have to rub two sticks together to make a fire and then shear a passing sheep, spin the wool, weave it into a blanket and use that to make smoke signals to a passing ship asking them to drop off our message the next time they make port.
And you tell that to kids today and they just don't believe you!
Re:Spot on. (Score:3, Funny)
Its the future, things move faster now.