doctorohhnoes

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   by doctorohhnoes 13y ago

   That's assuming they'll provide it at all. I'm assuming if they get someone to overturn universal service regulations, some rural, less profitable communities may be deemed not worthy to keep providing service in at all. I&#x
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   by doctorohhnoes 13y ago

   Blue boxes? To some degree, yes. There's a lot of switches in rural areas that rely on MF signaling (usually the ones that don't offer caller ID or anything), but they don't use 2600 hz supervision like the old carrier system
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   by doctorohhnoes 13y ago

   Glad you enjoyed reading it :) . That's the point, though; the phone network predominantly doesn't run on an IP network now, and I feel we'd really be better off keeping it that way.
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   by doctorohhnoes 13y ago

   I should probably add that the circuit switched stuff really isn't incompatible with less obscure gear. You can even send raw TDM frames over layer 2 ethernet. There's an implementation in PBX software for this. http://
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   An Open Letter from a Phone Phreak(pastie.org)

   7 points by doctorohhnoes 13y ago|7 comments
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   by doctorohhnoes 13y ago

   Come to think of it, I've never looked at inbound stuff. You'd think outbound would be where all the spam problems come from, though.
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   by doctorohhnoes 13y ago

   I'm surprised to hear that. I've never had a problem with an ISP blocking SMTP.