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AT&T will begin pilot testing all-digital IP phone networks in West Delray Beach, Florida, and Carbon Hill, Alabama, as part of the U.S. carrier’s push to move away from legacy switched telephone networks (PSTN and POTS) in favor of all-IP delivery of voice, data and video. AT&T’s announcement: Testing the Next Generation of IP Networks, states that […]
Introduction: At its January 30th Open Commission Meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to approve a petition AT&T had filed (in November 2012) to conduct trials of an “all-Internet Protocol (IP) network” that would eventually replace the PSTN and TDM networks now used extensively in the U.S. The transition will be from plain Plain […]
Ten years from now, attendees may look back at the 2009 Summer Convention as the seminal event where OPASTCO kick-started its transition from an association of the PSTN to one with a focus on broadband and IP. Mark Gailey, Chairman of OPASTCO, and John Rose, President of OPASTCO, echoed this theme in their opening comments […]
[12/02/15 – Note: this article was published on August 18th, 2004. The original HTML is not working, so it has been reposted] [Editor’s Note: Many thanks to Mr. David Irwin, Managing Partner, Irwin, Campbell & Tannenwald, PC and Director of the Institute for Communications Law Studies at the Catholic University Law School, for his insight […]
[12/02/15 – Note: this article was published on August 18th, 2004. The original HTML page no longer appears in a Chrome browser, so it has been reposted here] [Editor’s Note: Many thanks to Mr. David Irwin, Managing Partner, Irwin, Campbell & Tannenwald, PC and Director of the Institute for Communications Law Studies at the Catholic University Law […]