[BC] Telephone--what's a telephone?

[Robertm]

My two sources are an FCC document and Bloomberg. I don't know how they measured. Also well documented is that 52% of the country has no wired phone service, just wireless. That means that about 43% must have either a VOIP service or a phone bundled with a cable service. Only 16% have both wired and wireless phones while 3% have no phone service of any kind. 

The elephant in the room is connected machines, though. FAX, credit card readers and other auto dealer systems are not included in that count. They number about 125 million. 

All that said, I think that this is more back end stuff as it makes no economic sense to rip out and replace existing infrastructure for no return. So if a customer is way out in the country they would likely get a service that appears to be POTS but in fact is either an ATA at the CO or an IP feed to an existing SLIC. A switched network is just not efficient compared to IP. A voice T1 has 24 channels of bandwidth whether it is used or not while IP easily allocates bandwidth dynamically. 


>On Nov 23, 2013, at 10:47 AM, "Ira Wilner" <bdcst at vermontel.net> wrote:

>Robert, I can't believe that only 5% of the public are using POTS.  How was
>that statistic measured?  Sure a lot of folks have jumped onto cellular and
>cut the cord, but not in my neck of the woods.  Here it's a mixture of POTS
>and cellular.