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AT&T seeks trials to move all customers off wired phone service |
March 01, 2014
A rural Alabama town and a suburban area of Florida may be on the cutting edge of a historic shift away from traditional circuit-switched phone service, if AT&T wins approval to run trials in those areas.
The carrier plans to test a transition from its circuit-switched TDM (time-division multiplexing) phone network to wireless and Internet Protocol services in Carbon Hill, Alabama, and West Delray Beach, Florida. It will need FCC approval to begin the trials.
AT&T and other incumbent wireline carriers are still required to provide traditional TDM phone service even though many U.S. residents no longer use it. They want to move to alternative services over the IP-based wired and wireless networks they are building now and eliminate the cost of maintaining the old networks. AT&T wants to complete its transition by 2020.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2103560/atandt-wants-trials-in-florida-alabama-for-shift-away-from-traditional-phone-service.html#tk.rss_all
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