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Utilities Learn From Phone Services
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Jul 22 2013 06:35 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
As the economics of :
. . . . . . distributed energy,
. . . . . . storage and
. . . . . . demand-side management continue to improve,
. . . the warnings about coming radical changes,
. . . to traditional electric utility business models grow louder.
One of the most recent ominous signs of change came
. . . not from the power sector,
. . . but from the telecom industry.
AT&T recently said it wants to abandon all of its copper phone lines by 2020.
. . . Verizon is close behind.
. . . (only 1/4 of citizens will have a copper line by the end of this year),
. . . service companies are faced with difficult choices
. . . about how to maintain their infrastructure.
Source: Utilities
. . . . . . distributed energy,
. . . . . . storage and
. . . . . . demand-side management continue to improve,
. . . the warnings about coming radical changes,
. . . to traditional electric utility business models grow louder.
One of the most recent ominous signs of change came
. . . not from the power sector,
. . . but from the telecom industry.
AT&T recently said it wants to abandon all of its copper phone lines by 2020.
. . . Verizon is close behind.
. . . (only 1/4 of citizens will have a copper line by the end of this year),
. . . service companies are faced with difficult choices
. . . about how to maintain their infrastructure.
Source: Utilities
