AT&T Asking FCC To Make Landlines Extinct
In almost a humorous sense of irony, AT&T is asking the FCC to kill landlines for good, despite having troubles maintaining their current cell phone network, according to Cult of Mac. AT&T's past arguments have been the large influx of iPhone users has had a negative impact on data congestion.
"With each passing day, more and more communications services migrate to broadband and IP-based services, leaving the public switched telephone network and plain-old telephone service as relics of a by-gone era," AT&T stated. "It makes no sense to require service providers to operate and maintain two distinct networks when technology and consumer preferences have made one of them increasingly obsolete," they continued.
While AT&T certainly has a point, one still has to wonder what it would mean for their cell phone network, if all landline users had to make the jump to the cell phone.
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pnaro
January 04, 2010 at 1:22pm
That is why rural people love you soooo much! 40 minute drive to get coverage that sucks, although that may reduced to 20 minutes now, it has been a while since I checked last.
If you are going offer broadband, then I may be interested, but frankly, when the power goes out, so does my internet, but the phone still works.
woolyninja
January 04, 2010 at 8:25am
They just want to get rid of the old telephone lines and be able to strictly have landlines go over the broadband/IP-based lines instead. It makes sense as right now there is redundancy between the two and the old stuff is obsolete.
Loup407
January 04, 2010 at 7:32am
My guess is, we'd be paying even more for a still crappy network.
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