Something of a tempest in a teapot has sprung up over Hurricane Sandy’s impact on one New Jersey community. Last week, a New York Times article cited complaints from some residents (one, actually) of ...

A bonus episode for you this week as the lads are delighted to welcome back special guest Juliette Scott of Openreach.

First Orion, a provider of phone call and data analysis solutions, this week released its "2018 Scam Call Trends and Projections Report." By combining specific call patterns and behaviors with other ...

Telecommunications have been undergoing a significant transformation with the impending transition from the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to more advanced communication technologies This ...

The Public Switched Telephone Network has formed the backbone of the UK Telecoms industry for over a century, but this legacy technology will finally be switched off at the end of 2025 When you ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Commerce Commission’s 2021 review of PSTN regulation found the service remained important in parts of the country and there was no clear direct substitute. It concludes that PSTN interconnection ...

Last month, Microsoft finally shared detailed adoption numbers for Teams Phone System, noting on its earnings call that there are approximately 12 million active licenses in use. While an impressive ...

This time we’d like to make some comparisons between the security of the PSTN and the security of data networks. Data networks, like the PSTN, require physical protection on some levels. Data networks ...