The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007

Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by grecy on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:33PM (#12572243)

Interestingly, I worked at a Telco from 2011-2015, granted, a rural one in North America.

In all honesty, without a shadow of a lie, the master strategy of the VP of Technology was to get a fax line into every home and business....... in 2015.

Oh yes, they really can be that clueless.

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by ddebernardy on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:43PM (#12572292)

Fax is still a growth market in the US, or at least was as late as last year if a chap in that market I interacted with then is anything to go by. He was working on a fax sending API. The stuff couldn't go by signed email or anything of the sorts because of some administrative and (medical) insurance related paperwork if memory serves.

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by Spooky23 on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:29PM (#12572738)

That's a feature of the absurdity of compliance checkboxes.

If the auditor is an idiot, you can get a moderate finding for doing things like applying a security patch that isn't FIPS validated, or similar nonsense.

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by ZanyProgrammer on Saturday September 24, 2016 @06:47PM (#12572980)

That seems like a ridiculously narrow use. Fax is not a growing industry.

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