Comments on: Heralding the Death of the PSTN http://www.voipsupply.com/blog/heralding-the-death-of-the-pstn Everything you need to know about VoIP Fri, 18 May 2012 11:50:55 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Fred http://www.voipsupply.com/blog/heralding-the-death-of-the-pstn/comment-page-1#comment-6882 Fred Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:28:57 +0000 http://blog.voipsupply.com/?p=1452#comment-6882 We've have wireless internet where I live in a Manila suburb. It's from a company called SmartBro. Their broadband service is relatively slow (up to 384 kbps) compared to cable or DSL speeds. but it's good enough for VOIP calls which I often make. Wireless internet, which uses existing mobile phone cell sites like SmartBro might be one answer to the "last mile" connectivity isuess that are holding back the widespread deployment of broadband. Maybe the death of PSTN won't be that far out. Oh by the way, here in the Philippines, SmartBro is a subsidiary of the local telco. So while PSTN might one day be gone, the AT&Ts, Sprints, and Comcasts that own them will likely live on. We’ve have wireless internet where I live in a Manila suburb. It’s from a company called SmartBro. Their broadband service is relatively slow (up to 384 kbps) compared to cable or DSL speeds. but it’s good enough for VOIP calls which I often make.
Wireless internet, which uses existing mobile phone cell sites like SmartBro might be one answer to the “last mile” connectivity isuess that are holding back the widespread deployment of broadband. Maybe the death of PSTN won’t be that far out.

Oh by the way, here in the Philippines, SmartBro is a subsidiary of the local telco. So while PSTN might one day be gone, the AT&Ts, Sprints, and Comcasts that own them will likely live on.

]]> By: Cory Andrews http://www.voipsupply.com/blog/heralding-the-death-of-the-pstn/comment-page-1#comment-6742 Cory Andrews Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:39:04 +0000 http://blog.voipsupply.com/?p=1452#comment-6742 Brian - I agree with all of your points. It would seem that some form of widely deployed, readily available wireless data connectivity would help matters, and would force the hand of the incumbent providers to offer more reliable and cost effective services in order to compete. I've been watching WiMAX develop, tough to tell how that is going to shake out. Brian – I agree with all of your points. It would seem that some form of widely deployed, readily available wireless data connectivity would help matters, and would force the hand of the incumbent providers to offer more reliable and cost effective services in order to compete. I’ve been watching WiMAX develop, tough to tell how that is going to shake out.

]]> By: Brian http://www.voipsupply.com/blog/heralding-the-death-of-the-pstn/comment-page-1#comment-6732 Brian Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:11:50 +0000 http://blog.voipsupply.com/?p=1452#comment-6732 VoIP is tied to Internet Connectivity, which must come first. We still have people using DIAL-UP for Internet connectivity, and PARTY LINES for calls. My own dad lives in a place where you can't get CABLE TV. It's taking DECADES for ISDN drops to be installed within 10 miles of a capable CO. I had dark fiber on the telephone pole behind my house, ten YEARS ago, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Can I get networking from it yet? No. Bureaucracy and other insanity prevents it. Verizon FIOS isn't "in my neighborhood." I can barely get Fiber connectivity to my business, right by San Jose Airport, without spending huge sums of money for the loop. The infrastructure for Internet connectivity is a long way off, and in turn, so is VoIP. Unless the infrastructure delivery improves by a hundredfold, we are talking multiple centuries for AT&T/Sprint/Comcast to get the connection to every home. Parting shot: I have Comcast Cable, I am technologially savvy - and I still have a land line. Why? Because I've seen Comcast's service level for Internet. It sucks in triplicate. At the billing level, I've been billed for service I never got. At the Tech Level, I've had trucks roll to my house no less than FIVE times in 1.5 years, that's once every 3 months. At the Support level, they've misdiagnosed the problems, stepped on each other's work, and a total failure on communicating between each other. If AT&T provided this level of service at the start, we'd still be using quill pens and parchment. VoIP is tied to Internet Connectivity, which must come first.

We still have people using DIAL-UP for Internet connectivity, and PARTY LINES for calls. My own dad lives in a place where you can’t get CABLE TV.

It’s taking DECADES for ISDN drops to be installed within 10 miles of a capable CO.

I had dark fiber on the telephone pole behind my house, ten YEARS ago, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Can I get networking from it yet? No. Bureaucracy and other insanity prevents it. Verizon FIOS isn’t “in my neighborhood.”

I can barely get Fiber connectivity to my business, right by San Jose Airport, without spending huge sums of money for the loop.

The infrastructure for Internet connectivity is a long way off, and in turn, so is VoIP. Unless the infrastructure delivery improves by a hundredfold, we are talking multiple centuries for AT&T/Sprint/Comcast to get the connection to every home.

Parting shot:
I have Comcast Cable, I am technologially savvy – and I still have a land line. Why? Because I’ve seen Comcast’s service level for Internet. It sucks in triplicate. At the billing level, I’ve been billed for service I never got. At the Tech Level, I’ve had trucks roll to my house no less than FIVE times in 1.5 years, that’s once every 3 months. At the Support level, they’ve misdiagnosed the problems, stepped on each other’s work, and a total failure on communicating between each other.

If AT&T provided this level of service at the start, we’d still be using quill pens and parchment.

]]> By: Amy-Kate Wych http://www.voipsupply.com/blog/heralding-the-death-of-the-pstn/comment-page-1#comment-6152 Amy-Kate Wych Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:57:03 +0000 http://blog.voipsupply.com/?p=1452#comment-6152 Dear Cory, Sorry to have to have contacted you in this way I could not find and email address to contact you directly. I visited your website today, and wanted to write to ask about submitting news releases. webitpr, runs a news distribution and monitoring service aimed at the online media. We run a very targeted distribution, only sending relevant news releases to each of our editorial and blogger contacts. We categorise each site by its interests, both in terms of industry and geographical focus. I would like to send you any releases we handle in future that are relevant to VoIP Supply. I would be very grateful if you could confirm: - what is the correct email address to send press releases to? - your industry areas of interest? - your geogrphical focus, if any? I have added you to our database for now, but if you do not wish to receive news releases please let me know and I will remove you immediately. I very much hope our news releases will be of interest, and also specifically relevant to you based on the topics covered in VoIP Supply website. I look forward to working with you in future. Amy-Kate Wych Business Development Executive Dear Cory,

Sorry to have to have contacted you in this way I could not find and email address to contact you directly. I visited your website today, and wanted to write to ask about submitting news releases.

webitpr, runs a news distribution and monitoring service aimed at the online media. We run a very targeted distribution, only sending relevant news releases to each of our editorial and blogger contacts. We categorise each site by its interests, both in terms of industry and geographical focus.

I would like to send you any releases we handle in future that are relevant to VoIP Supply. I would be very grateful if you could confirm:

- what is the correct email address to send press releases to?

- your industry areas of interest?

- your geogrphical focus, if any?

I have added you to our database for now, but if you do not wish to receive news releases please let me know and I will remove you immediately. I very much hope our news releases will be of interest, and also specifically relevant to you based on the topics covered in VoIP Supply website.

I look forward to working with you in future.

Amy-Kate Wych
Business Development Executive

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