If the Phone Doesn’t Ring
January 9th, 2010
AT&T has begun courting the FCC with the notion that Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) needs to be shut down and replaced with a purely IP based system. They state this as “when, not if”, and are pushing for a firm date to pull the plug.
The motivations include cost – maintaining a single comms infrastructure for all mediums is inherently less expensive – but they also cite the ubiquity of broadband service.
Were only that true. Perhaps it’s time for another round of “bring me a fucking wire” so I can finally be done with this craptastic sat service (motto: “we’re slightly better than dial-up”).
My one biggest hope here is that this push will finally yank the wired providers onto common carrier turf.