What is the future of Landline phone technology ?

Question

I see a lot of things happening in Cell Phones. Similarly, a lot of things are happening in Internet telephony. However, I am not observing any major developments taking place with Landline phones e.g. no bluetooth for landline phones. Is Landline phone becoming obsolete (or already has became so) ?

Answer 1

land lines are being replaced by FiOS service, this will take a long time, but eventuallay everyone who has a "home phone" will either be on VoIP or some other type of phone over fiber optic...

businesses still do not benifit from going to an all VoIP set up, as if there internet connection goes down, then they lose all of there voice lines, which can be a huge problem for a business... as compared to land lines the odds of a business losing all phone lines at the same time is rare (it can happen, but the odds of a single internet connection going down compared to all of the land lines comming into a business is greater... )

RBOC companies are not putting any more money into the copper infustructure... they may make repairs, as needed, to band-aid a problem cable, but all of there resources are going to FTTP...

Video is going to become a bigger part in phone communications in the future... as bandwith increases, and the technology improves... while video confrenceing is available today, and has been for some time, i believe that we are going to see more personal use for video calls in home phones, and cellular phones in the next few years..

Answer 2

I think people will stop using landline phones very soon if they haven't already.For instance, phone companies are starting to face competition from cable companies, like Toshiba who have lured customers away with their Internet-based communication offerings. Even as their landline subscribers decline, the phone companies still have to fork out billions of dollars a year to maintain the networks

Answer 3

Land lines will be here for a long time. The only way to completely get rid of land lines will be to get everyone that uses a phone to switch to VOIP. If you are in an office that has VOIP, ordering a pizza accross the street will require a land line. You are only truly using VOIP if you are calling another user with VOIP. If you are calling a number that is not VOIP, you are going to connect to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) at somepoint to connect the call. The main use for VOIP today is in office environments that run their phones over their internal data network. Companies like Vonage use VOIP to get the call from your phone to their equipment, at which point it is turned into a traditional analog phone call which is routed to the PSTN. I prefer land lines still because the quality is better. VOIP technology is not quite perfected yet. The Internet was designed to handle Internet information like web traffic, not real time phone calls.

As for cell phones, they may replace home phones, but an office will never go a wireless environment.

I hope I this helps clarify things for you.

Answer 4

While I don't see landlines disappearing anytime soon I do see people moving away from them at least in a residential application. Businesses will almost always need land line phones. In the home front I can see(I've tested this stuff in my lab), converged access, so you have a cell phone and it rings but when you go home it rings on your house phone, centralized voice mail, so instead of having 1 answering machine at home, voice mail on your cell phone you can have 1 voice mail box for both cell phone & home phone.

On the business front it is also converged access, IP phones and IP PBX's that interface with your email system so that you can click a contact in outlook, tell your computer to dial and the computer sends the number to your phone do dial, no more looking at your computer and then back to the phone to dial. You will also be able to get your voicemail in your email box, this is a great feature especially for a roadwarrior. If someone calls your desk & leaves a message the voicemail system will take that voicemail message and send it to your email box so you can listen to it on your PC.

Answer 5

Well, I recently read that China will forgo installing land lines for telephones, and just leap directly to cellular towers for cell phones, since it would be foolish to "go backward" to land line technology now.

However, I feel that I am being pressured by my telephone company to dump my land line and purchase a cell phone. They keep "nickle & diming me to death" with miscellaneous chanrges, and other services I don't need, didn't order, and don't want! If they're going this far, Hell will freeze over before I buy cellular service from them!

Answer 6

DECT is a system of cordless phones. You have a transmitter plugged into the phone line and you can have up to eight handsets. The exchange just sees it as a phone. You probably had a dud one.

Answer 7

no, landlines are here to stay!