Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!XX.LCS.MIT.EDU!ELMO From: ELMO@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.telecom Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8609160558.AA13738@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 01:58:06 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8609160558.AA13738 Posted: Tue Sep 16 01:58:06 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Sep-86 18:45:56 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 32 Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu Date: Mon, 15 Sep 86 14:08:06 CDT From: Will Martin -- AMXAL-RI To: telecom@MIT-XX.ARPA Subject: Prevalence of modular jacks Are there any available statistics showing what percentage of subscriber premises in the US are equipped with modular jacks? Are there breakouts separating them by "residential" and "business" categories? It seems to me that advertising and literature about telephone equipment, and related items like modems, is beginning to assume that "everybody" has modular jacks available. Yet, in my personal experience in homes here in St. Louis, MO, in the city itself (therefor mostly older homes), modular jacks are the rare exception. Four-prong plug-and-jack equipment is even rarer, and ordinary traditional-style screw-and-wire connections are the rule. (And most homes have wiring for one phone, usually in a hallway. Those that have extra wiring added to get to an upstairs bedroom, say, tend to have amazing routings of wire along baseboards, up stairwells, over and around doorframe woodwork, and usually ending in a screwblock situated where you will always have to move the bed to get to it! :-) I've been wondering if this is really the case all over the country, and the ad copywriters have been projecting a higher-tech image than the reality can support? Or is everybody else farther advanced into the quick-plug future than we are? (I know that adapter devices are readily available and anyone who knows which end of a screwdriver does what can easily install their own modular wiring. But I have the feeling that this is going to be necessary well into the 21st century...) Will Martin