During its Open Meeting on May 19th, the FCC will consider two critical issues:
- Proposed rules and E911 requirements for IP-enabled service providers
- a comprehensive review and proposed rules on the Universal Service Fund (USF).
http://www.fcc.gov
FCC to Consider VoIP 911, Universal Service Fund Next Week
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about VoIP. Here is what it replaced:
POTS / PSTN served from 1876. What ultimately replaced it?
POTS / PSTN analog voice carried as a continuous electrical signal over a copper loop to a circuit-switched exchange, which set up an end-to-end dedicated path for the duration of the call. Its job passed to VoIP — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
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May 11From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.