No. But it’s getting there. In business continuity we used to be advised to keep a POTS (plain old telephone service) line around because it would the last service to go down and the first one to come up. About a year ago we were advised that we shouldn’t bother. The copper lines convert to VOIP at a switch station.
They are switching off the copper network in NZ. Suburb by suburb at the moment. But 87% have fibre, up to 8Gb/s to the home.
Not landlines, I don’t think. And I don’t think all cell phones either.
Re: landlines
Technically they are from the CO (central office) once they hit the carrier’s trunk.
Re: Cell phones
I’m not sure about 3G, but VoLTE (voice over LTE) is VoIP.
At our work a long time ago they switched out the phones and I think but I’m not sure it was going to voip.
I’m pretty sure landlines are mostly VoIP now, at least in Canada. Every home phone plan I could find (with picurest of old people of course lol) were VoIP based, which also allows small competitors here to at least have some phone options, because the big companies don’t have to sell bulk prices of their cellular towers to smaller competitors.
In the US my mom has some old rotary analog phones that simply wouldn’t work with her new service. Had to buy her an analog to digital converter before they started working again. Most phone service comes through your internet modem now, so if they aren’t phased out yet, they are working on it.
For emergency purposes, no.
Just about, though.
Depends on your exact question. I still have some analog phones around. But they’re connected via an VOIP adapter. And I suppose most calls are converted to internet protocol somewhere on the way anyways. I don’t think there are many analog lines and interchanges through the country anymore that’d connect you directly (without conversion) to your grandma.
It’s starting to feel that way. The ISP I use that also serves telephone, only serves VoIP and I’ve had other services before do the same.
Like, why do that when I’ve gotten a Google Voice number for free to use?
no. POTS (plain old telehphone systems) still exists. None of that is VoIP, although it’s almost certainly encoded to digital and sent as packets. VoIP is a very specific thing, and not the same as cellular or landlines.
