Will AT&T talk over the Cloud?

Something very interesting happen this week as  AT&T petitioned the FCC to get rid of its land line business. They say it is too costly to maintain and that in order for them to provide broadband access to 100% of the US it will cost them $300+billion and they won't have enough money to spend maintaining land lines.  That's a curious point since they deliver their broadband typically using ADSL/DSL which runs on the wires that they already have in place. Now it is true that there are distance limits the DSL has that other forms of broadband doesn't but I'm a little suspect as to what they are really up to.  Just call me a cynic, but I think they are getting ready to go head to head with the big ISPs... or maybe they have figured out what everyone else has figured out an the VoIP provides higher margins and less equipment than traditional TDM services. I'm sure that they see that businesses are moving rapidly away from wire line service to VoIP and it would be a way for them to move faster to pick up the lucrative business market.  Well this is all speculation and anything might happen.  All I know that when the giant starts moving it shakes the earth.  Let's watch and see what they do.  Maybe their's an iPhone play in it too!

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