Comments on: A Dying Landline Business Sounds a Lot Like Static

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 07:46:24 +0000

Will all be in the cloud powered by fiber. Hosted PBX!

By: CenturyTel to Buy Qwest for $22.4 Billion | Gadget Public Informations

CenturyTel to Buy Qwest for $22.4 Billion | Gadget Public Informations — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:26:46 +0000

[...] wireline telephone and DSL services is on the wane, but at the same time, the need to spend money to maintain old lines and invest in new technologies like fiber is on the rise. Unlike Verizon and AT&T, CenturyTel [...]

By: CenturyTel to Buy Qwest To Become a Big Bell

CenturyTel to Buy Qwest To Become a Big Bell — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:29:01 +0000

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:00:31 +0000

Ahhhh..... the days when I was a Cingular Wireless employee with my CUID (user id) A little before the AT&T name switch. Sounds about right..... top end pay Tulsa for CSR at the wireline side was hmm roughly 24.00 but ohhhh the wireless division driving all the revenues that the wireline business was loosing ohhhh maybe 11. I completel agree with yah there brah.

By: Skype Still Snatching Minutes From International Carriers – GigaOM

Skype Still Snatching Minutes From International Carriers – GigaOM — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:03:47 +0000

[...] Skype is still the largest long distance phone company in the world. And as VoIP grows both on the computer and on mobile devices, thanks to an ever-increasing number of VoIP apps for mobile phones, international carriers are going to find yet another source of profits eroded. [...]

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:39:37 +0000

But what happens with 911, atm machines, people who have hunt group rollover phones, dsl service at home? That's all on copper.

By: AT&T to FCC: Let My Landlines Go! – GigaOM

AT&T to FCC: Let My Landlines Go! – GigaOM — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:00:58 +0000

[...] are hurting its business while providing little benefit to the consumer. We pointed this out in an April story, later picked up in the NY Times, although the Times got the credit in the AT&T filing. But [...]

By: NextGenCommunications » Blog Archive » Crisis, what crisis?

NextGenCommunications » Blog Archive » Crisis, what crisis? — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:01:31 +0000

[...] would this be a problem? After all, the number of people dropping their landlines in favor of cell phones is increasing every year. And if this is what the public wants, isn’t [...]

By: Video phone? No thanks... | TechClicker

Video phone? No thanks... | TechClicker — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:59:25 +0000

[...] have been tied using corded phones. Society quickly adapted to this massive paradigm shift, began dropping traditional landlines, embraced the breadth of new activities that could be undertaken while talking, and accepted the [...]

By: The Real Reason Verizon Is Backing Away From Landlines | Diversified Web Holdings

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:26:40 +0000

[...] I said in an earlier post, as the number of landline subscribers decreases, the carriers’ cost to service those aging copper lines is increasing. Based on data from FCC reports, AT&T, Verizon and Qwest spent $52 on maintenance per access [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:21:46 +0000

In Houston, TX AT&T (ILEC) charges long distance to call a cell phone from a (pots) landline. I was billed over $7.00 to call my daughters local cell phone from my landline for 10 minutes. It’s sad. My family has 4 AT&T cell phones and we can call each other for no extra charge but I actually didn’t know I would be penalized for being stupid (I forgot and used my AT&T landline)

I love AT&T wireless but charging long distance to call a local cell# from a land line???

Shame on you AT&T. I’m porting my land line number over to Vonage. I want to keep my landline number because I don’t want to put a referral number (of my cell#) on it and disconnect it.This way I can keep all the kooky sales calls off my cell phone. Adios AT&T wired service.

PS I’ll never buy CATV or Internet service from such a loopy company that cheats old people out of money when they call their kids local cell phone.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:53:20 +0000

I’m an AT&T wireless employee and I can tell you their profits are through the roof, and us wireless employees don’t enjoy anything even remotely close to the same contract as the failing wire line departments. We are driving profits by being treated like indentured servants and slaves.

Hiring freezes,attempts to hire cheap,3rd party labor, and a complete disregard for the health and well being of it’s employees is what’s driving AT&T to the top.

By: AT&T Will Scare You Into Keeping Your Landline

AT&T Will Scare You Into Keeping Your Landline — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:35:46 +0000

[...] non-Verizon landline customers to ditch their wires in exchange for wireless. The battle between wired and wireless is heating up. The AT&T campaign, complete with a picture of an ambulance racing to the scene, highlights [...]

By: So Long POTS…

So Long POTS… — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:21:34 +0000

[...] correspondents have been on a tear about the obsolescence of POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) or landlines. Their latest snippet by [...]

By: Verizon Dumps Rural Access Lines for $8.6B

Verizon Dumps Rural Access Lines for $8.6B — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:41:35 +0000

[...] more consumers drop landlines, they’re becoming more expensive to service and as such a bigger drain on some carriers’ bottom lines. This is leading to consolidation [...]

By: We Need an FCC Chief and We Need Him Now

We Need an FCC Chief and We Need Him Now — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:01:55 +0000

[...] industry has seen the number of landlines fall by more than 1.6 million and watched AT&T and Verizon both get [...]