BT Bids Switched Telephones Good-Bye

[Alex Snow]

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well anything's better then the current phone system in the US. I'd 
think we'd be better off if we went back to old step-by-step switches. 
then even if services sucked you could bluebox all the long distance 
you wanted.
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 
at 07:51:41PM -0600, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209 wrote:
> 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 ??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.
> >
> >--
> >Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk
> >Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239
> >ICQ: #61744808
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