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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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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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10 Interesting Facts About the Telecom Industry

ACC Telecom

10 Interesting Facts About the Telecom Industry 1. Lewis Latimer helped draft the patent for Bell’s design of the telephone. Working with Alexander Graham Bell, Latimer helped draft the patent for Bell’s design of the telephone. The first telephone answering service started in 1923.

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BT Urges UK SMEs to Go Digital by 2025 Deadline

VoIP Review

The countdown is due to the impending retirement of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), which has been key but is now outdated technology. The telecoms major has already transitioned around 300,000 business lines to digital in 2024 alone.