More evidence that the phone line as we know it is dead. From Dan Gillmor:
Previously, I had two phone lines into my house, each costing almost $20 a month for the dial tone plus local calls. One of those lines was split to also handle digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband data access. In addition, I paid a long-distance carrier per-minute rates and a monthly connection charge.
Today I have one phone line, split into voice and DSL services. But I also have a new box attached to the network that links my phone to the Internet.
Dan’s talking about a service called Packet 8, one that charges $20/month for advanced services like these. This is more than you can get from Bellsouth for the price. Far more.
I’m very close to ordering one of these to test drive it. There’s no contract commitment and I can get my money back within the first 30 days.
Stuff like this will kill the landline. Or even better, once WiFi networks are commomplace, your neighborhood’s calls could float through the ether in IP packets. At any rate, the writing’s on the wall!
My house landline is down for some unknown reason other than nonpayment. Calling Bellsouth got me an earful of Talking Heads and Def Leppard and the unfortunate news that they will have our service back on no later than 6 PM….WEDNESDAY (that’s 5 days from right now.) MAkes me want to disconnect and do something else..
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