[138134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What vexes VoIP users?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Mon Feb 28 13:46:40 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D6BE974.5060402@spectraaccess.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:45:52 +0000
To: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:29, Bret Clark wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote:
>>=20
>> VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for =
people on this list, not my mother.
>>=20
>> --
>> Leigh
>>=20
>>=20
> Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be =
whining about POT's lines decreasing exponentially year over year!
>=20
And how many grandmothers do you think are responsible for this =
downturn? Not many I'll bet. The downturn will be down to cell phones =
and the odd person who gets cable and finds they can do with skype or =
something.
People are not, en-masse, going away from POTS and towards plugging a =
VoIP device into the back of their router.
--
Leigh Porter
