On Aug 30, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Howard Winter wrote:
>>
>> But a VoIP phone is fundamentally simpler than a cell phone, for
>> instance, and cell phones are routinely 'free' here.
>
> That's only because they're tied-in to a contract...

And being tied into a contract is different that being tied into
a monopolistic telco exactly how?  (oh - with the contract I get
to switch every year or two and get a NEW free phone... :-)

> there isn't much advantage to going VoIP for the rest [backbone],
> swapping one digital system for another.
>
Sure there is.  Packet switching is much easier than the circuit
switching required by current phone technology, even if it IS digital.

BillW
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