Comment by Bender

I get what you are saying but POTS in my location is still copper. I know because I dug it up when putting in a cattle guard. I will have to splice it back together and run it somewhere other than under my driveway which I had paved. 811 marked it as disco/not-in-use. The telco accidentally leaked their plans to run fiber everywhere so I might wait for them to do that. If it ends up being VoIP then maybe I would still have SMS capability for poor mans 2FA? Maybe the competition will drive the cost of my existing fiber down. To userbinator's point the end result will be no more options to install applications. It would just be a phone. I would be back to good old fashioned NSA voice monitoring.