Yep, I've known Evan since 1971, and he doesn't think the modern phone system is worth a second look. I'm learning all about VOIP, as I'm pretty sure it's our future. -- Bill in Denver On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, nick G wrote: > As Evan Doorbel once said, one day, we'd entirely be in the digital age. > It's happened, but now much more. Get your telephone recordgings in Britain > while you can...hahahaha. > Thanks, > Nick > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Toby Fisher" <toby at tjfisher.co.uk> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 8:44 AM > Subject: Re: BT Bids Switched Telephones Good-Bye > > > On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > >>> From NewsScan Daily >> 11 June 2004 >> >> >> BT TO SHUT DOWN 'CIRCUIT-SWITCHED' NETWORK IN FAVOR OF VOIP >> U.K. giant British Telecom will gradually shut down its traditional >> circuit-switched network and migrate over to technologies that route phone >> calls over the Internet. The change "will deliver our vision of a >> converged, multimedia world where our customers can access any >> communications service from any device, anywhere -- at broadband speed," >> says BT Wholesale CEO Paul Reynolds. The new system will enable each >> subscriber to have a single phone number for both mobile and fixed-line >> services, and will make possible such add-on features as family conference >> calls, video streaming and voice-activated phones. BT estimates that by > the >> 2008-09 fiscal year, the new network could save it about ??1 billion >> annually. (AP 10 June 2004) > > That's interesting. > > During the mid-90s, one of our lecturers said (and remember this was > before broadband), rthat BT could save themselves a huge amount of money > by scrapping the pstn (analog phone network) and give, yes give, > *everybody* an isdn line. This is due to the high cost of pstn > maintenance, fraying and aged cabling etc etc. > > Cheers. > > -- > Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk > Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 > ICQ: #61744808 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
