Except Australia! No charge for a PSTN line,wow.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Larry Hancock</b> <<a href="mailto:larryjoe@westok.net">larryjoe@westok.net</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p>The plain truth is that about 45 percent of broadband lines in the
United<br>States are ADSL lines. Those lines nearly always have a PSTN line
provided<br>with the broadband service at no additional charge. That is also
true in<br>nearly every other country.<br><br>If you use CPE equipment from Zoom
with its "TelePort", you will have E911<br>compliance at no additional monthly
cost. Zoom's product uses the PSTN for<br>emergency calling, and it also reports
to the server that there is a PSTN<br>line connected. That reporting function
assures compliance with the FCC<br>mandate. <br><br>There are other
advantages to this approach but it could also be easier to sell VoIP
<br>if customers are asked to migrate to VoIP rather than make a cold turkey
switch.<br><br>This way customers can be offered all benefit and no negatives.
VoIP can let them<br>continue with their PSTN service and receive all PSTN
benefits while also<br>gaining new capabilities such as a free second phone
line, far lower<br>long distance rates, a very rich set of extra features at
little extra cost - <br>without asking them to give up anything.<br><br><br>And
with this approach, VoIP services are not likely to lose revenue.
Devices<br>like Zoom's gateways and ATAs can be set to use VoIP services as
the<br>default. If a VoIP service plan is usage based, the revenue will
develop<br>while the consumers will be introduced to VoIP in a very
non-threatening<br>manner. <br><br>--
Larry</p></font></font></div></div>
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