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VoIP And Cell Phones Eroding Traditional Telecoms

Posted by timothy on from the one-way-function dept.

Lullabye_Muse writes "Yahoo! reports that telecoms in Europe and U.S. are losing in response to people switching their home phones for cellphones and dial up to cable modems. More info on specific VoIP discussed in latter part of article. The trend seems to becoming widespread, I guess 10 years and all the old wires are gonna start to be taken down."

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  1. Cellphones by DirePickle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can have my landline when you pry it from my cold dead hands. Cells are useful on occasion, but they just are not clear enough. And they're too unreliable on the insides of many buildings. Mine doesn't work at all if I go into my basement. I really hate talking to people on cell-phones. No one can understand anyone else, some of the time (less frequently, nowadays) you get that echoey-reverb thing going... Anyway. Go copper.