AT&T’s plans for TDM-to-IP transition trials are clashing with efforts to de-regulate telecom – an initiative the company also has been championing. Consumer advocates and ADT, one of the nation’s largest alarm companies, are asking Kentucky lawmakers to delay passing…
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…
The TDM-to-IP transition trials that the FCC announced last week will include several types of trials, with a different objective for each trial type. In a 114-page order adopted last week and released Monday, the commission provides additional details about…
The FCC today took steps to address two open issues that have been lingering for many months – TDM-to-IP transition trials and a broadband Connect America Fund program for small rural telcos. Rather than making any decisions, the commission outlined…
The idea of transitioning today’s telecommunications infrastructure to the Internet protocol gained further traction yesterday with an announcement from the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions and the SIP Forum that they would work together to specify a network-to-network interface for…
FCC officials said at the commission’s monthly meeting today that they will enlist the help of other agencies for TDM-to-IP transition trials. Officials also provided a few more specifics about other elements of the TDM-to-IP transition trials, about which they…
A study released yesterday from the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) provides strong evidence for the need to get moving on a TDM-to-IP transition. Only 5% of U.S. households rely exclusively on traditional voice service for communications, according to the study…
As the telecom industry contemplates the TDM-to-IP transition aimed at replacing traditional voice service with VoIP, some of the biggest challenges will center on interconnection. The move to IP will require rethinking how service providers exchange traffic with one another…
The FCC on Friday proposed a trial that would enable telecom service providers to replace traditional wireline phone service with wireless service. In addition the commission proposed two separate but related trials – including a VoIP interconnection trial and a…
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…