D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 9/28/09 01:25 , Brenda Ann wrote:
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I was talking to my old buddy on the phone this afternoon.One of his
sons works for Bell South (at&t) here in Jackson, he is a Techinal
Engineer at the phone company.

He said in a year, there will be no more land lines phone lines in
America.When I asked him, Why? He said becouse so many people nowadays
have cell phones and land line maintnance has gotten too expensive for
the phone companies.

What a Ca - tas - toe - strope! ~ Jimmy Durante.
cuhulin

I have an old school phone line. I have measured service for
$6.50/month. You want a copper pair if you can get one, especially if
you're getting old and live alone. 9-1-1 isn't reliable any other way.

They still have to maintain landlines for their ADSL and TV over phone
line
services. Don't believe for a minute that they will toss out their cash
cow(s).




They're moving to bundled voice-internet-TV. When ATT installs
U-Verse, around here, the first thing they do is cut the copper. In many
cases, if possible, they remove the drop line from the pole, so the pair
can't be reactivated. Verizon cuts the copper when they install FiOS.
Comcast cuts ATT's copper when they install their bundle.

U Verse is twisted pair from a box in your neighborhood. Fiber to the Node.

dave wrote:
D. Peter Maus wrote:
On 9/28/09 01:25 , Brenda Ann wrote:
wrote in message
.. .
wrote:
I was talking to my old buddy on the phone this afternoon.One of his
sons works for Bell South (at&t) here in Jackson, he is a Techinal
Engineer at the phone company.

He said in a year, there will be no more land lines phone lines in
America.When I asked him, Why? He said becouse so many people nowadays
have cell phones and land line maintnance has gotten too expensive for
the phone companies.

What a Ca - tas - toe - strope! ~ Jimmy Durante.
cuhulin

I have an old school phone line. I have measured service for
$6.50/month. You want a copper pair if you can get one, especially if
you're getting old and live alone. 9-1-1 isn't reliable any other way.

They still have to maintain landlines for their ADSL and TV over
phone line
services. Don't believe for a minute that they will toss out their cash
cow(s).




They're moving to bundled voice-internet-TV. When ATT installs
U-Verse, around here, the first thing they do is cut the copper. In
many cases, if possible, they remove the drop line from the pole, so
the pair can't be reactivated. Verizon cuts the copper when they
install FiOS. Comcast cuts ATT's copper when they install their bundle.

U Verse is twisted pair from a box in your neighborhood. Fiber to the
Node.

The only place they do FTTP is where no copper pair ever existed, e.g.
new housing.

That divorced Bell South woman who used to live next door to me a few
years ago, and she moved back to Natchez.(can't blame her for that!) She
gave me her cell phone number when she used to live next door.I didn't
ask her for her cell phone number.I will see can I phone her tonight and
ask her.

Thingy is though, she also gave her cell phone number to some kids
(brats) who used to live across the street from doggy's couch.She once
told me those damn kids were bugging the hell out of her, calling her on
her cell phone.I suppose she has changed her cell phone number since
then.

www.devilfinder.com
Julie Emerick Bell South
cuhulin

dave wrote:

U Verse is twisted pair from a box in your neighborhood. Fiber to the
Node.

Well, sorta correct. Twisted pair (copper) back to the V-rad or SLC. (~
3.5 kilofoot limitation for U-verse service). Then fiber back to the
C.O. (central office), not "node".

Nick Danger wrote:
dave wrote:

U Verse is twisted pair from a box in your neighborhood. Fiber to the
Node.

Well, sorta correct. Twisted pair (copper) back to the V-rad or SLC. (~
3.5 kilofoot limitation for U-verse service). Then fiber back to the
C.O. (central office), not "node".

# Fiber-to-the-cabinet or fiber-to-the-curb (both abbreviated as FTTC,
although FTTCab is sometimes also used) - fiber is terminated in a
street cabinet typically closer than 300m of the customer premises, with
the final connection being copper.
# Fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) - this is very similar to FTTC, but the
street cabinet is further away from the user's premises; it can be up to
several kilometers away.
-wikipedia