May 12th, 2010

Land lines becoming extinct? 25% of Americans think so

File this one under “well, duh!”. Researchers working for the NCHS “discovered” something that has been covered for years: more and more people are canceling their land lines, and just using cell phones. → Read More

July 23rd, 2008

With the number of landline telephones decreasing, telecos scramble to replace lost revenue

The number of landline telephones (POTS) is on the decline in the U.S., which is bad news for the likes of AT&T and Verizon since they still depend on their landline business for much of their total revenue. Take AT&T, which gets a whopping 32 percent of its total revenue from POTS. The latest numbers from the FCC show that there’s 163 million landlines in the U.S. as of June, 2007… → Read More

October 15th, 2007

Microsoft to launch Microsoft Communications Server: Watch out, PBX salespeople

If you’ve ever worked in IT you’ll know there are two disparate and potentially competing technologies in the server room. First, there are all the IP servers — web, mail, porn, terabytes of video storage hidden by the sysadmins at 4am — and the “phone closet,” a dusty corner of a creepy closet somewhere near the guy who smells where the voice mailboxes and… → Read More