If you thought that the digital TV transition, with its billion-dollar coupon program for converter boxes, was a migration nightmare, wait until it’s time for the phone system to dump its legacy ...

Now that network visionaries have been returned to Earth by the gravity of market realities, they're seeing that in order to not only survive but prosper, Internet Protocol (IP)-based private networks ...

Today, the FCC convenes the first meeting of its “Technology Transitions Policy Task Force,” a new intra-agency group announced in December by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. The bland name belies a ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has kept Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology free from the same regulatory requirements and fees charged to traditional circuit-switched ...

Two months ago, AT&T petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to plan for the retirement of traditional phone networks and transition to what AT&T sees as an inevitability: the all-IP telco.

Sprint is to change its entire circuit-switched telephone network to packet technology in an attempt to keep up with customer demand for capacity, it announced Tuesday. All eight million of Sprint’s ...