Subj : Re: Real Modem on VOIP?
To   : Alexander Grotewohl
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Sep 10 2026 08:10 am

-=> Alexander Grotewohl wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 AG> https://rcntechnologies.com/pots-shutdown-tracker/

 AG> lists places where they're ripping it out, or have already. AT&T
 AG> apparently intends to remove almost 100% of their footprint by the end
 AG> of 2029.

2600 magazine has a monthly article called "The Telecom Informer". The
author ostensibly travels around the world on business and describes
telephony in the various places. He described a WAP and SMS-driven
economy in China in the 2000s where you could buy most anything on a
cell phone, to African countries that skipped copper completely and went
straight to cellular, to reservations running wireless internet
backhauls. Very interesting.

He talked about the post-Hurricane Sandy situation in New York, where
the local carrier, Verizon, was in court trying to get permission to
abandon their copper instead of repairing it - replacing dialtone with
cellular adapters that put dialtone on your home pairs and dialed out
over cellular.



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