[1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete"

[John Monday]

To add to the list of providers -

FastTrack Communications is a registered ClEC in New Mexico with our own fiber backbone to include a local fiber presence in Farmington. Our fiber backbone reaches into in Albuquerque and Aztec, while also extending into Colorado.  We provide a full array of voice, internet and transport services to our business, service provider, government and school customers.  Our only limitation is we do not provide residential services and have no plans to.  We have been IPV6 ready for over 2 years.

John

John Monday
Director of Network Engineering and Operations

FastTrack Communications
jmonday at fasttrackcomm.net
Office: 970.828.1006
Cell:  970.799.4713
Fax: 970.247.2426


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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 Brown
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:51 AM
To: John Badal; 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Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete"

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.



> -----Original Message-----
> 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 Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] AT&T Says "The Telephone Network is Obsolete"
> 
> 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.
> 
> "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."
> 
> "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."
> 
> You can read more in the ars technica web site at http://goo.gl/Mlnqm.
> 
> Marianne Granoff
> Albuquerque, NM

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