Telephone Companies Going Digital

[Uncle Sam]

Here is a "heads up" to be aware of when planning for the future.

There is really no such thing as a "telephone" (labels die slowly) company anymore since they provide all kinds of digital services to us. We heard a few days ago from one of our e-Port credit card customers that is serviced by a "land line" that all the older telephone land lines are going to be changed from analog to digital over the next few years. How fast this will happen is dependent on which telco services you and how fast they proceed with this change over.

The bottom line is that the older "land line" e-Port control boxes do not work on digital so they will have to be replaced with new digital equipment. All of the new e-Ports work on ethernet or wireless systems.

Technology is changing so fast who knows what what we be using when this change takes place. Obsolescence through technology is getting to be a continuing and expensive proposition. This is what many people call progress.

Uncle Sam

 

[Skipper Jack]

There is a large installed base of analog devices that depend on POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service); not just consumer's phones, but faxes, alarm systems, many company PBXs and etc.

These systems can co-exist with digital service now, such as DSL service and POTS over the same copper pair.

The carriers (phone companies) have been converting to digital for some time now. It is only the "last mile", the final drop into the consumer's home or business that often remains analog. This last mile connection will someday be digital as well, but instead of having an analog last mile you
will use digital-to-analog conversion to create an analog 'last foot' where your legacy analog equipment can reside.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Skipper Jack,

You gave us some good information which I did not know about. Maybe the phone companies can service the old analog equipment, but some of the manufacturers of this old analog equipment won't keep parts or provide support when it is needed. They force you to go to the latest digital equipment. Only time will tell.

Uncle Sam

 

[pitzerwm]

That is what always happen, evolution to bigger and usually better. Your computer is obsolete, usually when you buy it.