Premature and very dangerous move, the public is at great risk, only Sat phones seem to work when there is a natural disaster. Cell phones for the most part can't even connect to 911.... -henry ________________________________ From: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, May 6, 2012 12:44 PM Subject: Re: POTS Ending (Re: Operation Ghost Click) On 04-May-12 04:11, Anurag Bhatia wrote:
Curious to know if naked DSL (DSL without dialtone & POTS link) is common in North America?
The availability of naked DSL varies from state to state within the US, depending on how successful the telcos have been at bribing^Wlobbying the various state regulators and politicians. Even where not required, some telcos have ended up offering it anyway due to competition from other service providers, eg. cable, fixed wireless or mobile wireless.
PSTN <<>> IP connectivity is banned [in India] which brings up back to GSM/CDMA and POTS option.
The naked DSL debate isn't about VoIP; it's really about the mass adoption of mobile phones. Some telcos see DSL as an opportunity to force customers to keep paying for landlines they never use anymore. This is a big deal because they have a lot of expensive equipment they're still paying for--much of it bought to handle the massive influx of dial-up modem users in the 1990s--that is generating less and less revenue every year. S -- Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking