[138132] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Mon Feb 28 13:38:19 2011
To: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:37:43 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said:
> On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote:
> > VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on this list, not my mother.
> Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be
> whining about POT's lines decreasing exponentially year over year!
I do believe that the ILEC's are mostly losing POTS lines to cell phones, not
to VoIP. I myself have a cell phone but no POTS service at my home address. On
the other hand, I *am* seeing a metric ton of Vonage and Magic Jack ads on TV
these days - if VoIP is "too niche", how are those two making any money?
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