atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums General Telecom News State Laws Allowing End of Land-Line Service.

At my old job we used to install Tunstalls in retirement homes; bad idea but hey!I'm only the guy installing, not selling or a consultant. Instead of having an alarm in every room that lights up a board at the front desk and pages a nurse through a dedicated line, basically every resident had its own CA38A to dial out.

Anyway, in my last couple of years doing that, more and more of retirees didn't have a landline, creating headaches to the home's administrators.

32%, increase of 200% in 6 years is huge! Not worried about phone per say, more about cable/copper/fiber Internet; don't want to be obligated to have community WiFi for multiple reasons: monitoring/privacy, bandwith restrictions, meteorological impacts, for instance.

I guess progress is always scary at first, and we always adapt through all the bitching and moaning. :shrug:

Speechless!

I'm inclined to think that phone companies are fiercely lobbying for this not because they want to promote competition but rather because they wanted to save costs on maintaining the landline communications infrastructure. Let's admit it people, minimal competition means more profits, right? Or maybe i'm just thinking like this because I don't trust anything that AT&T does. Besides, while it is true that mobile technology is already in place, there are still areas where you don't get a signal, and in some places, its sporadic at best. While it's true that landlines will be gone in the future, I don't think that such time has arrived.

The states aren't moving fast enought for at&t so they've gone to the FCC to override the state laws. Story here.