BT Bids Switched Telephones Good-Bye

[nick G]

As Evan Doorbel once said, one day, we'd entirely be in the digital age.
It's happened, but now much more.  Get your telephone recordgings in Britain
while you can...hahahaha.
Thanks,
Nick
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toby Fisher" <toby at tjfisher.co.uk>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: BT Bids Switched Telephones Good-Bye


On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> >From NewsScan Daily
> 11 June 2004
>
>
> BT TO SHUT DOWN 'CIRCUIT-SWITCHED' NETWORK IN FAVOR OF VOIP
>      U.K. giant British Telecom will gradually shut down its traditional
> circuit-switched network and migrate over to technologies that route phone
> calls over the Internet. The change "will deliver our vision of a
> converged, multimedia world where our customers can access any
> communications service from any device, anywhere -- at broadband speed,"
> says BT Wholesale CEO Paul Reynolds. The new system will enable each
> subscriber to have a single phone number for both mobile and fixed-line
> services, and will make possible such add-on features as family conference
> calls, video streaming and voice-activated phones. BT estimates that by
the
> 2008-09 fiscal year, the new network could save it about £1 billion
> annually. (AP 10 June 2004)

That's interesting.

During the mid-90s, one of our lecturers said (and remember this was
before broadband), rthat BT could save themselves a huge amount of money
by scrapping the pstn (analog phone network) and give, yes give,
*everybody* an isdn line.  This is due to the high cost of pstn
maintenance, fraying and aged cabling etc etc.

Cheers.

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