On 28 Feb 2011, at 18:37, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:29:08 EST, Bret Clark said: >> On 02/28/2011 01:17 PM, Leigh Porter wrote: >>> VoIP at the last mile is just too niche at the moment. It's for people on >>> this list, not my mother. > >> Baloney...if that was the case, then all these ILEC's wouldn't be >> whining about POT's lines decreasing exponentially year over year! > > I do believe that the ILEC's are mostly losing POTS lines to cell phones, not > to VoIP. I myself have a cell phone but no POTS service at my home address. > On > the other hand, I *am* seeing a metric ton of Vonage and Magic Jack ads on TV > these days - if VoIP is "too niche", how are those two making any money? >
I do not live over there, I have never seen a Vonage or Magic jack or any other VoIP service ad on TV in the UK, ever. It is quite a different market here. I can get POTS services over the same copper from, I'd say, about 5 different companies. Maybe more, I have not counted. I guess the competition already available on the copper would largely preclude anything but the cheapest VoIP service. -- Leigh
