Telecom Collapse?

Thu Dec 4 15:01:54 UTC 2008

Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at gmail.com> said:
>   
>> I deliberated for a while on whether to send this, or not, but  I figure it
>> might be of interest to this community:
>>
>> http://techliberation.com/2008/12/04/telecom-collapse/
>>     
>
> One thing doesn't make sense in that article: it talks about POTS being
> subsidized by other services, and people cutting POTS lines.  Wouldn't
> that be _good_ for the companies and their other services?  The way the
> article describes things, fewer POTS lines = smaller subsidies taken
> from other services = better profits for other services and the company.
>
>   
the lines are still there and still require maintenance so they loose 
money on it.