----- Original Message ----- > From: "Måns Nilsson" <mansa...@besserwisser.org>
> Maintaining copper plant is expensive. It will be retired as soon as > buy-in on FTTH is high enough. Telia Sonera is doing it in Sweden, > so the trend is global. (OTOH, in Sweden, young people moving out from > their parents, if they can find somewhere to rent, usually only get a > fixed connection for Internet access. Telephony is all mobile.) Absolutely: maintaining analog copper last-mile is expensive. But let us not conflate being ok with telcos replacing analog copper last-mile with being ok with telcos replacing PCM with VoIP, especially in trunking applications, and *especially* using non-dedicated backbones, as these are the directions the RBOCs appear to be going in, and those are much less acceptable ideas than the former. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274