[109678] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Telecom Collapse?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Warren)
Thu Dec 4 10:02:07 2008
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:01:54 -0500
From: William Warren <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20081204144827.GA827386@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@gmail.com> said:
>
>> I deliberated for a while on whether to send this, or not, but I figure it
>> might be of interest to this community:
>>
>> http://techliberation.com/2008/12/04/telecom-collapse/
>>
>
> One thing doesn't make sense in that article: it talks about POTS being
> subsidized by other services, and people cutting POTS lines. Wouldn't
> that be _good_ for the companies and their other services? The way the
> article describes things, fewer POTS lines = smaller subsidies taken
> from other services = better profits for other services and the company.
>
>
the lines are still there and still require maintenance so they loose
money on it.
