[152654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Sun May 6 15:48:30 2012
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 14:44:12 -0500
From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 04-May-12 04:11, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
> Curious to know if naked DSL (DSL without dialtone & POTS link) is comm=
on
> in North America?
The availability of naked DSL varies from state to state within the US,
depending on how successful the telcos have been at bribing^Wlobbying
the various state regulators and politicians. Even where not required,
some telcos have ended up offering it anyway due to competition from
other service providers, eg. cable, fixed wireless or mobile wireless.
> PSTN <<>> IP connectivity is banned [in India] which brings up back to
> GSM/CDMA and POTS option.
The naked DSL debate isn't about VoIP; it's really about the mass
adoption of mobile phones. Some telcos see DSL as an opportunity to
force customers to keep paying for landlines they never use anymore.=20
This is a big deal because they have a lot of expensive equipment
they're still paying for--much of it bought to handle the massive influx
of dial-up modem users in the 1990s--that is generating less and less
revenue every year.
S
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