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Aren't most ISPs worldwide phone service providers? I get a landline forcibly packaged with my internet service. I don't even have a landline phone.
by jolmg 8y ago
Aren't most ISPs worldwide phone service providers? I get a landline forcibly packaged with my internet service. I don't even have a landline phone.
- jethro_tell 8y agoThey are usually VoIP phone providers, they are just running a phone connection over the data you already paid for. Modems and fax machines are pretty sensitive, and pushing that sound over a packet switched network with UDP instead of a circuit switched network leaves a lot to be desired. So there are some places that still support old copper lines, but in many places, if they have to run a new line, they'll run a coax or fiber to your house and give you a plug in off of that. It's basically not an offering in many places now.
- tracker1 8y agoIt may be different now, but I remember back in the early 00's being unable to get better than a 14.4 connection over voip... That's all the provider would guarantee and was intended for fax use.