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Monday, February 17, 2003
Voice network called obsolete - Jon Van, Chicago Tribune
As SBC Communications Inc. confronts mounting troubles-- deserting customers, falling revenues and rising layoffs--its executives insist that things will improve if the government relaxes regulation and the economy recovers. But that may be ignoring the real culprit: Today's technology has rendered the century-old voice network of the Bell companies obsolete. SBC's traditional voice-oriented phone network may be unable to compete with the data-oriented Internet. Many engineers predict it will be years before a data network supplants the traditional one. Others say it has already happened and that the only reason the Bells are still in business is their economic and political clout.
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