by Pivot
Tag: PSTN
CenturyLink Reduces Annual Power Consumption
MONROE, La., July 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) will reduce network power consumption by approximately 22,000 megawatt-hours a year through a network optimization project with Nokia. Leveraging Nokia’s fixed network professional services,…
AT&T Wi-Fi Voice Waiver Could Drive Industry RTT Adoption
A waiver granted to AT&T by the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday involving Wi-Fi calling and text telephony (TTY) could be precedent setting and could hasten wireless carrier deployment of real-time text (RTT) capability. TTY,…
Telecom REIT Prospects: Is Wall Street Still Heady?
When Windstream announced its plans to spin fiber and copper network assets out into a real estate investment trust last summer, many service providers – including Windstream – saw their stock values jump. Wall Street,…
TeleGeography: Phone Line Decline Driven More by VoIP Than Mobile
Exponential growth in wireless and mobile telecommunications has created the perception that fixed-line telephony, and subscribership, is on the way out. The evidence isn’t as clear-cut as many may believe, however, according to market research…
Big Telecom Event: SDN, PSTN Sunset and More
Software defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and the PSTN sunset were hot topics at the Big Telecom Event in Chicago this week. Here are the five stories I thought would be of greatest…
Pluses and Minuses of Wheeler’s IP Transition Post
A blog post about the TDM-to-IP transition from the new FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has a tone of urgency, noting that “The impacts on networks have already begun and will be profound.” In the post…
Interconnection May be Toughest Part of TDM-to-IP Transition
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…
FCC Task Force to Address Critical IP Transition
The move to an all IP communications network is well underway. Most everyone in the telecommunications industry ecosystem recognizes this, yet there is disagreement on how best to manage the transition from the legacy PSTN…
ATIS Tackles PSTN Transition. Did The FCC Have a Hand In This?
You’ve got to wonder if FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and Susan Miller, president and CEO of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions had some sort of power lunch late last year. Just a few weeks…
PSTN Phase-Out Debate Continues at FCC
Discussing the potential phase-out of traditional voice services at an FCC workshop yesterday, Lee W. McKnight of Syracuse University borrowed a bit from Shakespeare. “I came not to praise the PSTN but to bury it,”…
Definitive Answers Elude FCC Workshop on PSTN Phase-Out
An FCC workshop yesterday about transitioning the PSTN to new technologies helped frame the issues involved but ultimately raised more questions than it answered. Perhaps that’s not surprising considering the complexity of the issue. The…
FCC Plans Workshops on PSTN Phase-out
The FCC is planning two workshops for December focusing on the transition from the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to new technologies. The first workshop, scheduled for the morning of Tuesday, December 6, will focus…