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, CenturyLink will optimize its network…
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, also known as teletypewriter capability,…
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, initially at least, applauded the…
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 from TeleGeography. Data from TeleGeography’s…
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 interest to Telecompetitor readers, including…
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 Wheeler pledges that in January…
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 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 to a wired and wireless…
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 after the FCC organized a…
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,” said McKnight. But some other…
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 potential phase-out of the PSTN…
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 on “obstacles and opportunities the…
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