Comments on: The end of landlines: No phone numbers and no international calling charges http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/ Sat, 18 May 2013 20:35:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mohansen http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1303347 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:25:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1303347 Indeed!

]]> By: Gary Trowbridge http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1222653 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 22:04:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1222653 Ooma has held my business number unportable to the carrier I have requested to switch to for 30 days. I still can not receive calls to my business and still no end in sight. I have over 5 trouble tickets with them and not one time has customer service EVER called me back. I have now ended service for my home with them and placed an FCC complaint. Still no resolve… not my idea of a good carrier. I wouldn’t recommend this service to my worst enemy… thanks ooma for KILLING MY BUSINESS.

]]> By: ALIENCOP http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1172581 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:01:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1172581 Tarataqa touched on the primary reliability issue. Not only a power outage, but a major EMP can fry the whole communication system, which means only some of the copper wire based system would still be possibly functional. Unless you have some kind of Faraday cage shielding everything from the major hubs to the phones themselves, you would literally be back to the Pony Express for any long distance communications. Only Genghis Khan and the USPS could actually provide that.

ALIENCOP

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1171476 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:02:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1171476 The “It’s” is a typo too, it’s the possessive pronoun.

Also, “It’s likely that’s rather have fatter IP-based services but in some areas they get the old-school circuits” wants a “they’d” in there somewhere. Special access circuits aren’t fat enough to backhaul LTE in any case.

The transition from TDM to IP is going to hurt a lot of public interest advocates who’ve spent their entire careers regulating TDM. Perhaps a retraining program on IP will help them cope with the loss of livelihood.

]]> By: CFC http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1169611 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:56:03 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1169611 Hopefully this won’t downgrade landline voice quality to the abysmal crap that is every cellphone I’ve ever used. Not to mention the nightmare of coverage maps, and the gawdawful *expense* of cellphones. Landlines are high-quality, ubiquitous, and inexpensive: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

]]> By: Ellie K http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1167573 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:50:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1167573 Yes. I thought that too, about the reliability aspect. It works exactly as you described. Not to mention the fact that the sound quality when I use my land line is much better than mobile, or maybe that’s because of the poor reception because of where I live.

This is just awful news.

]]> By: txpatriot http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1167194 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:07:53 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1167194 MAS here is a link to AT&T’s filing at the FCC:

http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/files/pdf/fcc_filing.pdf

]]> By: txpatriot http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1167185 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 23:04:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1167185 The FCC never said the network would be all-IP by 2018. It was the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) that suggested the FCC set a date-certain of 2018 to sunset the PSTN. But the TAC is not the FCC — it is only an advisory committee, and has no more authority over these matters than you or I.

]]> By: jpek42 http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1165882 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 11:04:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1165882 Interesting article, but your grammatical and spelling mistakes are distracting. “It’s” vs. “its” — come on.

]]> By: bukzin http://gigaom.com/2012/11/08/the-end-of-landlines-no-phone-numbers-and-no-international-calling-charges/#comment-1165362 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 05:48:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=582144#comment-1165362 How about systems like Obihai?

A far more flexible and affordable option to Ooma.

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