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1 month ago

in No More Landlines - Discussion on Fractals of Change
I stand by what I said in May 2007 the first time you made this prediction http://mrblog.org/2007/05/08/ill-take-that-bet/

DSL over copper is still the most common (by far) broadband delivery pipe.

Given that there are no plans to replace the plant on the table now, there's no way the project could be completed by 2013.

As others have noted, the rate at which "landlines are going away" is greatly exaggerated. Aggressive estimates say about 1/3 of all lines will be VoIP by 2010 — others say fixed line penetration will still be 74% in 2010.

Even if killing the copper plant is the sane thing to do, it won’t happen, and the copper plant will still exist in 2013 and well beyond. It will go away, but not by 2013. As ridiculous as it sounds, it may even still be dominant in 2013.
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Tom Evslin Dave:

As always, I know you know what you're talking about.

But I disagree. The problem is that, as you say, there is no plan to replace the copper plant BUT there won't be enough revenue on it to support it for many years longer. It's expensive to maintain and the costs don't go down nearly as fast as the revenue.

So the dnager is that the carriers can't or won't support the copper plant without subsidy while a substantial number of people still depend on it. Then we're back in bailoutville.

9 months ago

in Create a Twitter-like service in 45 minutes on LucaFiligheddu.com
I have actually setup WP with prologue and I don't know if it was less than an hour (with customization) but it was pretty easy and it is pretty neat.

Keep in mind, this is not really apples to apples, since it doesn't include any of the SMS interfacing that real Twitter has.

1 year ago

in How to find Ooma on Google on LucaFiligheddu.com
Yeah. It's a pretty common practice. There's irony that if those ads appear on a site of the actual product trademark owner, and someone clicks on the ooma ad, ooma pays the real product maker for that click.

It is generally considered a "black hat" (or sinister) practice and will burn bridges, however. It basically means Ooma has no intention of partnering with any of these companies because the terms of such a deal would generally forbid buying that company's tradmarked keyoords (and often many other related keywords).
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