FOX News: FCC announces plans to upgrade century-old phone system

[Louis Mamakos]

The real driving force (well, one of them anyway) is putting an end to the rate-payer subsidized local loops that the FCC forced the Local Exchange Carriers to offer unbundled access to their competitors.  And I’m sure it’s expensive to maintain relative to the revenue.  Of course, it was the LECs that chose the depreciation schedule for the facilities..

louie


On Nov 21, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Phil <philmt59 at aol.com> wrote:

> Of course, the real driving force behind the hardware update from copper wire to optical fibre is that the value of the copper will most likely pay for the whole conversion, and yield a profit.
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> Phil M1GWZ
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> On 21 Nov 2013, at 22:13, Andre Kesteloot wrote:
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>> I thought you might be interested in this article: FCC announces plans to upgrade century-old phone system.
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