VoIP killing off POTS

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Article:
http://www.eet.com/news/latest/sho [...] =162600155

Is this inevitable, good, bad?

At some point will Voip have to be
regulated to provide subsidy for POTS to remote/poor homes that do not
have an internet connection?

Will the internet become a single point of failure for all info services?

What is the "SME market?"

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Rick Merrill wrote:


> Is this inevitable, good, bad?

There should be no emotional content attached to any new technology. It's
how you use it that makes it good or bad. Inevitable? Something like what
we call VoIP today is inevitable, but the actual implementation may change
drastically in the future. Like a fusion of cell and VoIP phone or even
something that's not on the radar yet.

> At some point will Voip have to be
> regulated to provide subsidy for POTS to remote/poor homes that do not
> have an internet connection?

This is a very good point, and I think that this is where we (and
regulators) are heading. To the best of my knowledge it's not in the
immediate future though.

> Will the internet become a single point of failure for all info
> services?

Yes, but survivability was the underlying principal that Internet was
built on, so I don't see it as a disadvantage.


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On Fri, 06 May 2005 09:40:49 -0400, Rick Merrill wrote:

> Article:
> http://www.eet.com/news/latest/sho [...] =162600155
>
> Is this inevitable, good, bad?

New technology itself isn't good or bad. It's down to how it is used.

Disruptive technology is nothing new. IP is reducing traditional telephony
to a subservice, while adding many new services for the end-user. Just
like digital-camera's are putting the old photo-developers out of
business, or refridgerators doing the same for ice-distributors to use an
older example.

>
> At some point will Voip have to be
> regulated to provide subsidy for POTS to remote/poor homes that do not
> have an internet connection?

Exactly what happens in the transition-phase is too early to tell.
POTS-services are likely to exist alongside IP-networks for a long time.
VoIP-gateways may even be installed in local-exchanges at some point to
cater for POTS-users who refuse to get an internet-connection.

>
> Will the internet become a single point of failure for all info services?

Possibly, but no more than your single POTS-line is today. You may even
get redundancy by connecting to multiple suppliers. Telco;s and cable-co;s
even have separate infrastructures in many places.



>
> What is the "SME market?"

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> Article:
> http://www.eet.com/news/latest/sho [...] =162600155
>
> Is this inevitable, good, bad?
>
> At some point will Voip have to be
> regulated to provide subsidy for POTS to remote/poor homes that do not
> have an internet connection?
>
> Will the internet become a single point of failure for all info services?
>
> What is the "SME market?"
>
>
>