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

[Robertm]

The FCC numbers are actually close. The stat I got from Bloomberg is for residential phones and does not, as I mentioned, include connected machines or businesses. If you follow the FCC data in the document you attached, it shows about 10 percent residential switched service as of a year and a half ago. According to the FCC's number in that same document that is decreasing at 9% per year which would make that 8.65% now. Take away home faxes, alarm dialers and modem lines in homes and that 5% could even be high!


> On Nov 23, 2013, at 11:55 AM, "Harold Hallikainen" <harold at hallikainen.com> wrote:
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>> Robert, I can't believe that only 5% of the public are using POTS.  How
>> was
>> that statistic measured?