[AusNOG] M2 buy Primus

[Ramsay, Paul]

Maybe the old acronym POTS (plain old telephone service) is better than
PSTN! I was recently at a friend's house and saw that he had a "fixed"
line that actually used a sim card and no telephone cabling, only a
mains adapter was fitted (Huawei device). It obviously uses the mobile
network but is dumbed down so that it can only be used as a telephone
and answering machine, no text messages or anything else. Obvious
advantages are the non-reliance of copper infrastructure and speedy
installation, he just fetched the device from the shop and plugged it
in!

.


-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Delany
Sent: Monday, 16 April 2012 4:45 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] M2 buy Primus

On 16Apr12, Rod Veith allegedly wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I think we're largely in agreement though I do care what about the
'vector'
> I use. Would be interesting in market research on what most people
think.
> 
> My views and use of end user technology will undoubtedly change with
the
> technology however with present day technology part of the reason why
I care
> is due to user interface issues, device operation and the
content/message I

Too true. And I think Mark Newton touched on this. The UI model of
"calling or texting a number" will live on for a long time. That's why
I referred to PSTN numbers as a rendezvous mechanism.

But as Internet technologists, we know that carrying those bits and
getting them to the right place is orders of magnitude cheaper than
the PSTN operators charge today. That might be because our agenda is
different.


Mark.
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