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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who is affected?: 1.69 million more homes across 238 UK exchanges will no longer be able to order copper-based landline services. Why the change?: The ageing PSTN network is costly to maintain; ...

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

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 ...