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I can appreciate your frustrations...but I agree with the general consensus that we telephone techs need to adapt. The convergence between traditional voice and the IT world hasn't happened overnight...you gotta get out there and start getting yourself into the next gen technologies. I don't "befriend" It people myself, only because they have stuck it to me too many times in the past. You need to bring yourself to peer status with them to have any chance to survive. It sucks, but we have the advantage if we play our resources correctly.

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we will need to adapt. More money is made via Data networks than telephone lines. You will see a migration towards an umbiguous network. It won't happen overnight, and not in the next 5 years either, but one day will. So be prepared to change. In the meantime, there is still plenty of good old telephone business outthere. Just start intergrating stuff slowly. One thing I am providing for my customers is a combination voice/data T-1. I am also handling some basic networking stuff for my smaller clients. If I was a better IT guy, I could land some of those jobs that advertise for a person to handle both, but I am working on it.