The plain truth is that about 45 percent of broadband lines in the
United
States are ADSL lines. Those lines nearly always have a PSTN line
provided
with the broadband service at no additional charge. That is also
true in
nearly every other country.
If you use CPE equipment from Zoom
with its "TelePort", you will have E911
compliance at no additional monthly
cost. Zoom's product uses the PSTN for
emergency calling, and it also reports
to the server that there is a PSTN
line connected. That reporting function
assures compliance with the FCC
mandate.
There are other
advantages to this approach but it could also be easier to sell VoIP
if customers are asked to migrate to VoIP rather than make a cold turkey
switch.
This way customers can be offered all benefit and no negatives.
VoIP can let them
continue with their PSTN service and receive all PSTN
benefits while also
gaining new capabilities such as a free second phone
line, far lower
long distance rates, a very rich set of extra features at
little extra cost -
without asking them to give up anything.
And
with this approach, VoIP services are not likely to lose revenue.
Devices
like Zoom's gateways and ATAs can be set to use VoIP services as
the
default. If a VoIP service plan is usage based, the revenue will
develop
while the consumers will be introduced to VoIP in a very
non-threatening
manner.
--
Larry
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