On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Eric S. Sande <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting. We still have a significant revenue stream from landlines. > Very much so. But if you look at recent history we've basically sold off > all of the territories where it would be less profitable to deploy newer > technologies. I figure that cell phone use could triple or even quadruple if all landline service were to be eliminated. While it may be true that up to 80% of households have at least one person in residence who has a cell phone, it remains clear that many, perhaps even most phone calls in such homes are still initiated or received on a landline phone at that address. Most businesses, large and small, continue to use landline phones extensively, in many cases almost exclusively, for incoming and outgoing business calls. Ditto for all governmental agencies nationwide. There would be a monstrous increase in cell phone use were landlines to be done away with, and along with that, a huge need for additional bandwidth to provide for that increase in call volume. Where is that bandwidth going to come from? What kind of reliability can be expected from an all wireless phone system? Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
