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Re: What vexes VoIP users?
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:19:59 -0600 (CST)
They are in the US. Comcast tallies 8.6 million household telephone service accounts, making it the United States' third-largest telephone provider. As of February 16, 2011 Comcast has 8.610 million voice customers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast#Home_telephonePeople are not, en-masse, going away from POTS and towards plugging a VoIP device into the back of their router.
Twenty bucks says the first poster is correct; I'm willing to bet that most of the Comcast "VoIP" customers are handed off as RJ11 into legacy POTS lines in the target residence. In fact, I've had trouble finding any way to get our cable company to hand off their telephony service digitally, making the claims of "digital phone service" a little laughable as they still hand it off analog. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
Current thread:
- Re: What vexes VoIP users?, (continued)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Jared Mauch (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Owen DeLong (Feb 28)
- RE: What vexes VoIP users? Nathan Eisenberg (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Bret Palsson (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Jared Mauch (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Joe Greco (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Joel Jaeggli (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Scott Helms (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Leigh Porter (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Scott Helms (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Joe Greco (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Scott Helms (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Joe Greco (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Scott Helms (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Joe Greco (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Seth Mattinen (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Jay Ashworth (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Leigh Porter (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Jeff Wheeler (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Owen DeLong (Feb 28)
- Re: What vexes VoIP users? Joe Greco (Feb 28)