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Public Switched Telephone Networks

IP Transition Requires Smart, Fact-Based Strategy to Boost Broadband Opportunity

David Honig | Posted 04.10.2013 | Technology
Read More: Fcc, IP Transition, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, Pstn, Federal Communications Commission, IP Networks, Mmtc, Broadband, Public Switched Telephone Networks, Internet Protocol, Ip, Digital Divide, Technology News
David Honig

Nobody should be left behind; nobody should lose voice service; and every American, including people of color, should experience the opportunities that are possible in the all-IP world we are entering now.

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AT&T U-verse Is a Copper-Based PSTN Service: Lawmakers and the Media Were Duped.

Bruce Kushnick | Posted 03.25.2013 | Business
Read More: Public Switched Telephone Networks, Fcc, AT&T, Fiber Optics, Pstn, Texas, Copper Wire, Pots, Voip, Bait-and-Switch, Psnit, Business News
Bruce Kushnick

I just made a rather disturbing finding. AT&T's U-verse service -- its broadband, internet and TV service -- is a copper-to-the-home service. More importantly, it is a fiber-to-the-press-release.

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What Are the Public Switched Telephone Networks, 'PSTN' and Why You Should Care?

Bruce Kushnick | Posted 03.09.2013 | Business
Read More: Pots, Internet, Fcc, Broadband, Net Neutrality, AT&T, Information Service, Rural America, Pstn, Verizon, Regulation, Access Lines, Public Switched Telephone Networks, Voip, Tdm, Business News
Bruce Kushnick

It appears that you can fool most of the people most of the time. AT&T has proven that if you spend a boatload of money and repeat the same deceptive statements over and over, the public will believe anything you want them to.

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