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 [...]