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Phonelines: Not Just For POTS And High-Speed Internet?
EEGeek writes "With the advent of DSL a couple years back (1996 I believe), the capacity of simple twisted pair has gone from just POTS/Analog modems to high-speed internet, and now beyond. Recently the local phone company here released a new service, where you get television over the phoneline. They give you a set-top box, and a dsl modem, and you can surf the web, and watch tv on your television. you can also connect a computer or two for high speed internet. My question is, has anyone heard of any phone companies that have done this already? Have you heard of other interesting technologies over twisted pair, for example VoIP? This new service works really well, I'm extremely impressed with it." I remember being pitched movies-by-phoneline when I ordered DSL a few years ago, but have heard nothing since. Anyone with good or bad things to say about such service?
Why would phone companies want to run VoIP over and IP network running over a perfectly good phone network? They already have a perfectly good circuit switched network in place running right up to your house over the same twisted pair copper wire that you are getting your DSL service over.
What would they stand to gain from putting out the money to switch that voice service to be run over an IP being run on the same copper wire, other than adding congestion to their IP networks?
What advantage would adding VoIP to their networks offer to the user, other than increased latency and dropped packets to destroy the sound quality of their phone calls?
If I had a degree in english, perhaps I would speak with perfect english 100% of the time, but since I'm an engineer, and hence can't speak perfect english, but rather speak geek quite fluently, I believe I'm doing a decent job in getting the idea across. You knew exactly what I meant, hence who is worse, me or you for bringing up a completely moot point? I can atleast bring up comments which are very relevent to the thread...