Have You Cut the Cord on Your Landline Phone? AT&T Wants To, Too
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If AT&T (T) has its way, your traditional landline phone (assuming you still have one) might be going the way of the dodo bird.
On a recent conference call to investors, Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said, “We plan to begin an aggressive transition away from legacy TDM technology.”
Here’s what that means in plain English: TDM is short for “time division multiplexing,” the venerable phone technology we all grew up with. TDM carries calls over traditional copper phone lines that are…
Have You Cut the Cord on Your Landline Phone? AT&T Wants To, Too originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-11-13T10:55:00Z.
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