As thirty-year telecom veterans, we’ve seen our share of changes in the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) that includes the replacement of electromechanical switches with digital switching, the ...

Network access provider Openreach (BT) has today moved to help facilitate the closure of the old analogue phone network (PSTN ...

Critical systems such as payment processing, CCTV, security devices and internet of things (IoT) solutions, as well as voice services, are at risk of disruption due to UK businesses being “alarmingly” ...

Today, we’d like to get back to a few basics about the relationship between the public-switched telephone network and voice over IP. The PSTN includes a signaling system, a series of central offices ...

"Wireless as a carrier of last resort? That's like buying Tequila shots for the designated driver!!!" There are multiple conditional answers. For features and functions, wireless duplicates and ...

The channel has been urged to remind customers of the need to migrate from analogue networks before they are switched off and to make the leap to digital. The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) ...

New Zealand's Commerce Commission has opened an investigation into whether Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) ...

The Federal Communications Commission on March 16 unveiled it's 300-page National Broadband Plan. The plan was originally due to be delivered to Congress by Feb. 17. I wrote about the impending POTS ...

The BridgeD130 is a PSTN-to-GPRS converter that connects wired modems to wireless networks. The plug-and-play gateway can be fitted to security systems, industrial machines for recording and/or ...

A Commerce Commission draft decision says the growth of alternatives means Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) interconnection regulation may no longer be necessary. It plans to investigate ...

The move to an all-Internet protocol (IP) connection seems like a logical solution for the voice world. With that in mind, developers have spent the last few years tweaking and perfecting IP ...

The FCC should recognize what users have already decided: Universal service means wireless. In his feature on cellular carriers, Dave Michels points out that regulators including the FCC are starting ...