[1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete"

[John Brown]

Hi John,

Here in ABQ, CityLink Telecom is not only a pure IP voice provider but also a pure fiber provider.
I believe the only in the state.
And we have IPv6 in production with end user clients.



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> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-
> bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of John Badal
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:22 AM
> To: Marianne Granoff; nmisp at nmisp.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete"
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> With broadband now driving the train, I agree to a point.  By the way, do you
> know that the only telcos in the state of NM that are totally IP ready are
> Sacred Wind Communications and the Mescalero Telecom Company?  We
> both use hybrid TDM/IP switches and broadband loop carrier cabinets that
> are in fact fully IP ready.  A few of our techs are IT guys, no longer the tip and
> ring knuckle draggers.
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> John
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> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-
> bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Marianne Granoff
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 8:52 AM
> To: nmisp at nmisp.net; 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
> Subject: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete"
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> AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete"
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> Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission
> to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks. The petition is
> available at http://www.att.com/Common/about_us/files/pdf/fcc_filing.pdf.
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> "This telephone network we've grown up with is now an obsolete platform,
> or at least a rapidly obsolescing platform," Hank Hultquist, VP of AT&T's
> federal regulatory division, said. "It will not be sustainable for the indefinite
> future. Nobody's making this network technology anymore. It's become
> more and more difficult to find spare parts for it. And it's becoming more and
> more difficult to find trained technicians and engineers to work on it."
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> "Voice is the most efficient way to communicate," he said. "We have had the
> same voice service for 80 years. The voice quality you get when you make a
> call on the iPhone today is the same voice quality Bell Laboratories thought
> you should have in 1933. Shift forward 80 years, we're still using the same
> frequency response, 300 to 3300Hz."
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> You can read more in the ars technica web site at http://goo.gl/Mlnqm.
> 
> Marianne Granoff
> Albuquerque, NM