Re: OT: POTS Lines Going Away
POTS (or rather, PSTN lines) won't be going anywhere anytime soon. More and more of the backbone is being switched to digital and IP, which may (at some level) slightly degrade QOS for PSTN customers, but nothing will prevent voice calls from going through. If the PSTN goes away or is transitioned to something else, EVERY HOME PHONE IN THE COUNTRY would have to be replaced with something else.
At some point, we may find that the "last mile" of copper gets switched to some form of digital link, but the cable companies (and some wireless companies) are doing this already with no issues. Time Warner's phone service is far superior to the service offered by Windstream in this area. It works fine for fax and alarms (data signals) and it sounds great with voice.
There's no reason to be alarmed about any of this. It's a percieved problem that doesn't really exist. And... if it were to exist... VOIP is now to a point that replacing a PSTN line with a VOIP or SIP trunk is not a big deal, and any data that needs to be returned could be returned via IP as well. The equipment cost is minimal for each user, and if it were a real danger to something like Closed Captioning, there would surely be government assistance just like there was during the DTV transition.
Didn't you guys know that access to free TV is now apparently a human rights issue?
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