Thread: Re: phone number mandatory with DSL? what's the point in offeringVOIP ?

"Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Test wrote:
>
> > Good day ladies, gentlemen,
> >
> > I'm in Canada and I'm connected using DSL from AEI.ca.
> > The physical line is Bell Canada.
>
> FWIK, a DSL line IS a phone line (x2) so you have to have a phone
number.

No you don't: DSL data and voice traffic only share the last mile of
twisted pair. The telefon number has nothing to do with it: it's only used
by the telephone exchange AFTER the two types of traffic have been split.
The real issue is that the old telcos are worried of going to lose
revenues to VoIP, and are trying to shove down the subscribers' throats
contracts for voice traffic as well. Here is where telecom regulators
should prove to have balls, if they haven't sold them to the telcos...

Enzo

Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
Here is where telecom regulators
> should prove to have balls, if they haven't sold them to the telcos...
>
> Enzo
>

Um, sorry dude. They sold the family jewels to the bells YEARS ago.

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