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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Telecom New Zealand has announced plans to invest $NZ220 million to convert its PSTN network to VoIP. The first residential customers will migrate onto the new ...

London’s chief digital officer (CDO) has raised alarm over the impact of the copper switch-off on adult social care and other vital local government services, warning over its impact to vulnerable ...

General Dynamics C4 Systems will add a new public switched telephone network (PSTN) feature to the Sectéra vIPer universal secure phone in a $2.8 million contract awarded by the National Security ...

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 ...

The UK's analogue Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is in its final phase. The current network was designed to support the nation’s first telephone exchange and get people talking. But as ...