[152695] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naslund, Steve)
Wed May 9 12:25:08 2012
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 11:23:27 -0500
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From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
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Does not matter much when few people are using home landlines and even =
fewer own sat phones.
Steven Naslund
-----Original Message-----
From: Henry Linneweh [mailto:hrlinneweh@sbcglobal.net]=20
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:45 AM
To: Stephen Sprunk; nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)
Premature and very dangerous move, the public is at great risk, only Sat =
phones seem
to work when there is a natural disaster. Cell phones for the most part =
can't even connect
to 911....
-henry
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From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org=20
Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2012 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click)
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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 =
common
> 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.=A0 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.=A0 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
--=20
Stephen Sprunk=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 "God does not play dice."=A0 --Albert =
Einstein
CCIE #3723=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws =
the
K5SSS=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen =
Hawking
