= Сообщение: 3790 из 7124 ====================================== FTSC_PUBLIC = От : andrew clarke 3:633/267 10 Nov 18 01:28:04 Кому : Ward Dossche 10 Nov 18 01:28:04 Тема : FTS-1 and FTS-4 FGHI : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=3:633/267+5be59c0a На : area://FTSC_PUBLIC?msgid=2:292/854+0a260d3f = Кодировка сообщения определена как: LATIN1 ================================= ============================================================================== 09 Nov 18 09:27, you wrote to Andrew Leary:
AL>> I can't remember the last time I saw a dialup FTS-1 session, AL>> incoming or outgoing.
WD> I got rid of my dial-up modem in 2006.
WD> Lately I've been considering getting one again, the problem being I WD> can't find one anymore, not even in shops with recycled stuff.
In Australia it's increasingly difficult to connect a dialup modem to a landline and have it work reliably. POTS landlines are slowly being obsoleted by VoIP services connected to fibre (FttP/FttN/FttC), adding an analogue-digital-analogue conversion, hampering the modem's protocol negotiation etc. This can also cause fax machines to fail.
And of course many households and businesses have ditched their landlines altogether in favour of mobile devices. Consequently the remaining POTS landlines become more expensive and less profitable for Telstra to maintain.
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