Since AT&T filed a “comment” to the FCC at the end of 2009, calling for a definite timeline to “sunset” the PSTN, there’s been much discussion over the future of the old legacy Ma Bell network. Over at Squawkbox, Alec Saunders posted that mostly people are asking the ...

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The juxtaposition of the latest dazzling earnings report from Cisco (CSCO) with the appointment of former Cisco executive Kevin DeNuccio as the new CEO of Metaswitch Networks gives rise to a question: Does Metaswitch intend to be the Cisco of the carrier softswitch and IP-based applications market?It’s ...

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Here’s another reason why the world’s largest search-and-ads provider should have thought twice about launching its own branded mobile device: you wind up getting letters like this from the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC’s consumer bureau chief Joel Gurin and Ruth Milkman, ...

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