BT Bids Switched Telephones Good-Bye

Sat Jun 12 21:51:41 EDT 2004

Yep, I've known Evan since 1971, and he doesn't think the modern phone 
system is worth a second look.  I'm learning all about VOIP, as I'm 
pretty sure it's our future.

-- 
Bill in Denver

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, nick G wrote:

> 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 Â£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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