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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 wor…

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 26…

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 wa…

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 implement…

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.

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