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BT urges SMEs to go digital  

Total Telecom

In the past, 14% were slow to adopt the internet, 18% hesitated with social media, and 11% delayed using personal computers. The UKs analogue copper telephone network has a proud history, but its no longer up to the task for businesses. Keep up to date with the latest telecoms news by subscribing to our newsletter!

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Small Texas City Losing Cable TV, Keeping Internet after Network Sale

Broadband Breakfast

6,000) will soon experience a shift in its media landscape as TDS Telecom plans to discontinue its cable TV service there by Sept. The move comes as part of a broader agreement in which TDS Telecom, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, has sold its cable systems in Alpine and four other Texas locations. Alpine, Texas (pop.

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Celebrating Resilience: How Telcos Excelled Amid Rapid Industry Changes

Telecom Ramblings

This Industry Viewpoint was authored by Dan Rice, Senior Managing Director and Communications and Media industry lead for Accenture in the US Adapt or Be Forgotten In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell picked up his telephone prototype and forever changed how the world connects.

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How Reliable is Our Nation's – and the World's – Broadband Infrastructure?

Broadband Breakfast

Were readers of this publication to present at a telecom conference on the topic of broadband reliability, outages might not be top of mind.  Stories of lasers destroying telecom satellites have been around since well before the last Millennium, and today are far more likely to occur.

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Drowning Out the Noise

Rural Broadband Association

Each day brings new noise: politics, social media outbursts, endless opinions, baskets of drama and mounting demands on our attention. These blogs are brought to you by NTCA Women in Telecom, a program dedicated to empowering women in the telecommunications industry. To learn more about WIT or get involved, visit ntca.org/wit.

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Supreme Court to Decide Fate of $8 Billion Broadband Fund

Broadband Breakfast

  Critics argue that the Federal Communications Commission improperly delegated legislative authority to USAC, which manages the fund, and that the fee charged to telecom providers resembles a tax, which only Congress can impose. The consolidated cases — FCC, et al. Consumers' Research, et al. and SHLB Coalition, et al.

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How to Successfully Migrate from Traditional Telecom to Modern Packet-Based Phone Networks

Sangoma

A portion of the telephone network that dates back several decades is often called Plain Old Telephone Service, or POTS for short. Applications for POTS Lines What kinds of applications have used these analog telephone lines? However, there are other applications that are still implemented on POTS networks.