Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use
by carlmr on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:36AM
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>You can replace someone's POTS line with VOIP and they'll likely never notice (and this is underway). They'll notice if you take your fax machine.
The question is if fax on VoIP is still fax in that sense. At least the wikipedia article on fax mentions transmission through audio-frequency tones [1]. However if you count fax over VoIP as fax, I guess you should also count phone on VoIP as "landline".
Re:Technologies I thought my son would never use
by kwhitefoot on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:34AM
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I haven't used fax for at least 15 years. Might be 20, anyway so long ago that I can't remember when it was.
I'm less sure about this one, because of the relative difficulties of replacement. You can replace someone's POTS line with VOIP and they'll likely never notice (and this is underway). They'll notice if you take your fax machine.