AT&T: landline phone service must die; only question is when (Ars Technica)
In the heyday of the AT&T monopoly era, the telco’s legendary CEO John deButts had an acronym for the company’s main product. He christened it POTS, aka Plain Old Telephone Service, delivered over Ma Bell’s copper wire public switched telephone network (PSTN). A half-century later, AT&T says it’s time for POTS to die, and it wants the Federal Communications Commission to schedule its funeral …
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