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VoIP. Is Phone by Wire Nearly Dead?

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Hard wired phone lines. Just how long will we have them? And just how many metres of cable are there on those big pictured cable drums?

http://www.talktechdaily.com/new-phone-system/uk/?t202id=866&h=45&ia=phone34-1&t202kw=ta-ph-d044-2&c1=rt-rtcom&c5=Phone+UK+Desk&eid=CjBjYWExNDFmOS00MzhmLTQyMDgtYTI5Yi1iYmIzNjJkM2E2MGQtdHVjdDJjY2M5YmISFmNvbnN1bWVyZGFpbHktY2FibGUtc2M



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    Andy Millar:

    . . .  Here's an odd thing - as far as I can see all their VOIP phones are wired ethernet. What??? You don't hard wire things these days - that's why we have WiFi! 

    Does anyone know (for technical interest) what other providers are doing?

    . . .


    WiFi is great, especially for mobile phones, and we have a good signal in most parts of our house. But I am glad I wired up for ethernet. Sometimes you need the speed and greater reliability. Operations like downloading TV programmes from i-Player or the likes take time, but ethernet speeds things up.


    Talking about TV and providers for a moment gives us an interesting comparison. Television has been broadcast "through the air" since its earliest days. Now, however, one provider is trying to convince us that it is cool to dig up roads all over to bury fibre optic cables to bring it to us that way. We seem to be going in the other direction.


    Of course those cables can bring us other things - telephone, broadband . . .  It will be interesting to see what happens in the future. Those underground cables could well become shared by providers, just as at present we have sharing of telephone exchange equipment, energy infrastructure.


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    Andy Millar:

    . . .  Here's an odd thing - as far as I can see all their VOIP phones are wired ethernet. What??? You don't hard wire things these days - that's why we have WiFi! 

    Does anyone know (for technical interest) what other providers are doing?

    . . .


    WiFi is great, especially for mobile phones, and we have a good signal in most parts of our house. But I am glad I wired up for ethernet. Sometimes you need the speed and greater reliability. Operations like downloading TV programmes from i-Player or the likes take time, but ethernet speeds things up.


    Talking about TV and providers for a moment gives us an interesting comparison. Television has been broadcast "through the air" since its earliest days. Now, however, one provider is trying to convince us that it is cool to dig up roads all over to bury fibre optic cables to bring it to us that way. We seem to be going in the other direction.


    Of course those cables can bring us other things - telephone, broadband . . .  It will be interesting to see what happens in the future. Those underground cables could well become shared by providers, just as at present we have sharing of telephone exchange equipment, energy infrastructure.


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