On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:32:43 -0700, Mark Crispin <mrc@Panda.COM>
wrote:


>As with other traditional phone companies, AT&T's wireline business was
>hit hard, with a 2.6% decline in phone lines (60.4 million to 58.9
>million). This was worse than the market expected, but the impact to
>AT&T's overall profit margins was not as bad as expected, and AT&T shares
>rose today.

OUCH! I knew that cellular and VOIP were hurting landline business,
but not THAT bad.

Ugh... how much longer until the amount of ILEC landline customers
leaving will ease? Though I have cellular and VOIP, I consider those
to be either toys or just a nice convenience.

I'll still keep my landline, even if I drop most of the features on
there to bring the price down. Why? For or reliability and most
importantly, voice quality. Neither GSM or CDMA or any VOIP codec can
sound as well as a landline. They've come close in recent years, but
still don't sound as good as a traditional landline.