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Comments on news posted 2005-02-08 18:47:20: Techdirt points to new statistics that show the number of PC-using homes without a standard landline increased 60% since 2002 (from 2 to 3.2 million). ..
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 mlohrwork
join:2001-05-30
Laurel, MD |  The cable dies in local power outages
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rob_in_chatt
Premium
join:2004-09-17
Chattanooga, TN
 ·Comcast
| landlines i dont think you should have to have telephone service to have DSL........that is BS in my opinion, but landlines are fading fast and i say give it ten more years and they will be for business use only. screw the bells, i made the jump to a cell phone 4 or 5 years ago. used to have adsl from bellsouth too but then comcast came on an d now mae bell doesnt get crap from me  | |
| alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
|  Home Network!
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jervin123
| landlines were droping are landline soon... landlines arent that popular in africa like rural africa they can service a small village with one tower and a solar power supply and a microwave back haul instead of spending tons of money getting physical lines into there. cingular has fantastic gsm service in are area so we are ditching are landline. and if we need to make an international call we'll just use calling cards | |
| severach
join:2002-09-12
Jackson, MI
| Cox Digital Telephone System Seems like someone would come along and describe how Cox DPS provides POTS functionality. Looks like that's me!
They run at least two cables, probably more for technical reasons, one fiber and one power. At each drop point is a box that 1) converts the fiber signal to copper using the supplied power, and 2) injects power into the copper. Cable TV or Modem equipment gets a high voltage block and DTS equipment gets the full shot. Whether or not a customer subscribes DTS alters where the blocks are placed.
Cox DTS phones are powered entirely by a fiber fed copper cable line just like POTS except that in our case, the copper loop is no more than a few hundred feet of premisis wiring and each copper loop serves exactly one customer all through shielded cable. Multiple customers are separated internally by the fiber-copper translator box. Anyone who thinks POTS wiring is superior to that is crazy. I have never seen a DTS phone but it's entirely possible that it is hooked to premisis power to ensure it works even if the cable company's power cable is interrupted.
The Bells are planning to deploy FTTP and they will need to implement the same multi cable structure. Fiber doesn't transfer power no matter who's running it.
When I saw that our equipment was less than a hundred feet from Cox's fiber, I said what Cartman says: "Kick A**." I also stopped shedding tears over how much bandwidth I use. I also realized why in our area the caps are less strict and I figured that Cox, at least in our area, is going to be a strong contender for IP, data, and voice delivery for a long time. The Bells whine about FTTP, Cox has it all done and working were I'm at.
I only see two obstacles for Cable companies like Cox kicking up a big notch: (Anyone other than me want to see 20480/4096 as a low cost base rate?)
1) Not all cable networks are fiber. It's easier to have low caps for a high bandwidth areas than to have high caps for low bandwidth areas. Low caps lets the marketing department tout one number.
2) IMHO, all the interstate bandwidth comes ultimately from telcos so even though the local network can be fast and cheap, the cable Internet interconnect is at the mercy of overpriced telcos. The local networks will continue to be throttled until the interconnect costs go down. | |
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