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Re: alternative to voip gateways
From: "Mark Delany" <k3f () november emu st>
Date: 11 May 2020 01:24:45 +0000
wasnt there a hige shit stom in australia for their new national broadband network making internet ptrimary and phone secondary, a lot of aussies on forums I frequent bitch about its reliability, where even their aged copper services worked fine, not to mention prolonged outages due to storms and the bushfires they had recently, lets hope the world learns from australias mistakes and not go down that path.
There are still a few complaints every now and again but fixed line numbers are continuing to drop off a cliff and those residential services which remain have almost all been converted to VOIP via home gateway with an FXS port. Mobile/Cell is where most people ended up. Especially since you can get unlimited calls/txt with some data for about ten bucks a month. It also helps that a number of the mobile providers include wifi-calling so mobile is a viable alternative even in weak cell coverage areas if you have internet. Yes, everyone knows about the reliability/power-failure arguments but in the latest set of bushfires whole exchanges, backhaul services and power distribution cables were destroyed so 8 hours of battery backed up POTS in a local exchange didn't help much. Mark.
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- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 10)
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- Re: alternative to voip gateways Clayton Zekelman (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Mike Hammett (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Baldur Norddahl (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Mike Hammett (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Colton Conor (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Mark Delany (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Michael Thomas (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Mark Delany (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Michael Thomas (May 11)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 25)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Michael Thomas (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Nick Edwards (May 10)
- Re: alternative to voip gateways Michael Thomas (May 10)