Industry

The Adverse Effects of Bundling

Internet telephony revisited: The bottom-line savings on long-distance charges are of course the reason why most folks might be willing to ditch their POTS line for this solution. But I'm equally intrigued by the upside: applications that intercept and work with SIP signalling and digitized voice, integrate phone presence with IM, forward call metadata to Web services, and all the other CTI (computer-telephone integration) fantasies that may finally start to come true.
[Jon's Radio]

On the contrary, maybe you can't ditch your POTS line in favor of DSL. This is likely not attributable to devious forethought, but to billing systems that cannot differentiate between a DSL customer and a POTS customer. But what's the alternative? Go cable?

9:32:03 AM # Google It!
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