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 ...

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

Microsoft takes another shot at making PSTN calling and telephony features available to businesses subscribing to Office 365 and Lync Online. Nearly a year ago Microsoft detailed its latest plan to re ...

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 ...

In January 2027, the UK’s Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) will be permanently switched off, bringing an end to the copper-based analogue phone network that has quietly underpinned the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...