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Britain's copper telephone network could be switched off in near future

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    croo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,333 Mod ✭✭✭✭croo


    In a strategy paper the Department for Culture, Media and Sport describes a digital Britain 20 years from now where the streets are filled with driverless cars and internet coverage is everywhere.

    To achieve this vision, the ministry is asking for views on a raft of new measures, including copper switch-off and a widening of the universal service obligation to include broadband.
    No wonder Eircom is trying to wiggle out of the USO here - they're probably looking across the water and wondering what the hell they would do if the same thinking was to be applied here.


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Some people still need FAX. only ISP supplied VOIP is good enough (QOS) for Fax and other specialist analogue Modem applications on Broadband with no baseband copper analogue or ISDN.

    Broadband should have been USO 10 years ago. Before 2007 anyway.


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