FCC Ponders Moving From PSTN To IP Voice
Wants input on how to make it happen…
The FCC has issued a public notice (pdf) requesting input on precisely what it would take to migrate the nation from its legacy circuit-switched phone systems to an all-IP voice network. “In identifying the appropriate areas of inquiry, we seek to understand which policies and regulatory structures may facilitate, and which may hinder, the efficient migration to an all IP world,” says the agency. The effort would probably make the FCC’s coordinated transition to digital television look like a cake walk — so the FCC is getting an early start ahead of more formal rule creating processes. Now if you’ll excuse us, we think our neighbor is finally off of the party line and we need to call grandma.
via – dslreports.com.
Joly MacFie 4:14 am on 12/06/2009 Permalink |
In the recent Natonal Broadband Plan report where the famous $350bn figure was bandied around, it was emphasized that it would be much more economic to to just move the whole system to IP asap than to continue to maintain a hybrid system. I guess the question is just how much of the post-Bell’s revenue is tied up in maintaining the old system causing them to throw wrenches in the works?