AT&T Begs FCC to Phase Out Landlines Completely

In a 32 - page filing with the FCC last week , AT&T askedthat the demand that it support a land line connection be repealed . It ’s an fast-growing bidding to get free of the cumbersome wall jack and move only to VoIP .

An all - IP headphone electronic web may be inevitable someday , but AT&T is clearly hoping for that day to be as soon as potential . land line are less efficient and more expensive to maintain for the immune carrier , and do n’t append much consumer welfare either . unluckily , AT&T ’s filing does n’t describe for the 20 % of Americans who presently habituate only landline joining , and there ’s no way the FCC is going to leave alone one in five taxpayers twisting in the wind . The migration seems to be come about naturally anyway : according to GigaOM , total interstate and intrastate change memory access minutes have fallen 42 % from 2000 to 2008 .

ANational Broadband Planhas been a farseeing time in the works , but we ’re almost there . It ’ll be interesting to see how much influence Ma Bell can peddle . [ GigaOM ]

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