Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Data-Only SIMS, Google Voice, SMS Forwarding, and WeChat in China Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 08:30:28 +1000 Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <250820181330512766%nospam@nospam.invalid> <3fhaod9njs9draokg9tq33o0nile1lukib@4ax.com> <280820181057581242%nospam@nospam.invalid> <24udodlsfkjtdunipf6fiq403sahlshh0v@4ax.com> <290820182306441895%nospam@nospam.invalid> <310820181044499372%nospam@nospam.invalid> <010920181040322151%nospam@nospam.invalid> <050920181049530884%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net fMbefAO7zPm0WWng8aBK5AbT96VRxAEehRiSgXao/qsJD0mLY= Cancel-Lock: sha1:y5t2jiX2z2bdJh9ld5uxIy1x1Js= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:55568 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:113507 "sms" wrote in message news:pmpeng$11e$1@dont-email.me... > On 9/5/2018 11:57 AM, Rod Speed wrote: >> >> >> "nospam" wrote in message >> news:050920181049530884%nospam@nospam.invalid... >>> In article , sms >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Landline capacity expansion is incredibly expensive. >>> >>> except that it's already there and its costs long amortized. >>> >>> new developments have phone wiring installed >>> along with electricity and plumbing. >> >> We don't anymore, just broadband, electricity, plumbing and gas. >> >> There is no landline phone service anymore, its all voip over broadband. > > Well standard copper pair landline is going away, but a "landline" doesn't > have to be over a copper pair. Sure, but we wont be having any POTS/PSTN service at all all voip or mobile. > It'll be a long time before the copper goes away completely. Bet it will quite a while in some places. > The first step was FTTN to eliminate the need to run copper back to the > Central Office, and only the last few hundred feet was copper, It can be well over a km here. > but now both the cable companies and the phone companies are doing FTTH. We originally were going to have just that, but stupidly changed to FTTN, FTTC, HFC and fixed wireless as well. New major subdivisions are FTTH tho. > I can get fiber from either Comcast or AT&T. I have a pole in my backyard > and they kept needing to come into my yard to string the fiber. Our fiber is almost entirely underground.