Only a small fraction of AT&T customers in areas where the company is conducting TDM to-IP transition trials are voluntarily switching off of traditional voice service, according to data published on the New Networks site and which, according to New…
AT&T wants to discontinue offering DSL service to some customers in its TDM-to-IP transition trials, said FCC officials at the commission’s monthly meeting today, where an update on plans for the trials was provided. The company envisions that its cellular-based…
Windstream isn’t satisfied with how AT&T has proposed to handle wholesale customers in its proposal for TDM-to-IP transition trials and is asking the FCC to establish rules to govern this aspect of the IP transition. Windstream, an AT&T wholesale customer,…
A competitive carrier that has reseller agreements with all of the major local phone service providers wants to know how AT&T plans to handle resellers in its TDM-to-IP transition plans. The company, Granite Telecommunications, has 1.3 or 1.4 million TDM…
AT&T aims to replace traditional landline voice service with a combination of LTE and U-verse in TDM-to-IP transition trials it wants to conduct in rural Carbon Hill, Ala. and in suburban Miami. The company filed its proposal with the FCC…
A transition from TDM services to IP-based alternatives would entail a lot more than simply phasing out traditional voice offerings, said AT&T Vice President of Federal Regulatory Hank Hultquist in an interview with Telecompetitor today. One of the goals of…
AT&T will pay $5.25 to settle a FCC investigation into two 911 service outages that occurred in March and May 2017. The AT&T 911 outage settlement involves calls placed by customers on the carrier’s voice over LTE (VoLTE) network. According…
When a weather-related or other emergency strikes, telecom disaster recovery ranks right up there with power and sanitation in terms of importance. Telecompetitor was reminded of this today when we dropped in on an AT&T telecom disaster recovery drill in…
Collect calls could become a thing of the past if AT&T has its way. The company has filed a petition with the FCC for permission to discontinue the service, along with other operator assisted offerings such as international directory assistance….
People in any part of the country covered by AT&T’s wireless network can now get a wireless-based home phone and Internet offering from the company, said an AT&T executive in a blog post on Thursday. As the executive explained, customers…
AT&T today said it will offer high-definition (HD) voice using voice over LTE (VoLTE) in certain markets in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wisconsin beginning May 23. The technology is still in its infancy, however. An AT&T spokesman confirmed that customers…
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