COPPER LANDLINES GONE BY 2013
[SOURCE: TelephonyOnline, AUTHOR: Ed Gubbins]
The copper last mile line to the house wont exist in six years, according to
Tom Evslin, co-founder of Internet service provider AT&T Worldnet and
voice-over-IP wholesaler ITXC. "By 2012 [there will be] no more reason to use
our landlines -- so we wont, Evslin said. I dont think the copper plant
will last past 2012. The problem is the cost of maintaining and operating it
when it has very few subscribers. Obviously [its] a huge problem for AT&T and
Verizon. And an important social issue as well. Evslin pointed to a study
showing the percentage of homes with landline phones declining from about 96%
to 94% between 1998 and 2003 while cell phone penetration jumped from 36% to
63%. Those trends have probably accelerated since then, he argued. By 2012,
copper landlines will have been replaced by WiFi-enabled mobile phone services
like the one T-Mobile will roll out nationwide this summer, Evslin wrote. Such
services will highlight the superiority of mobile phones over land lines in
consumers minds: mobile phones are more capable (with built-in cameras,
directories and address books, etc.) and less expensive.
http://telephonyonline.com/home/news/copper_landlines_gone_052507/
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