Intercarrier compensation began in 1984, after the breakup of AT&T. It was instituted by the FCC to facilitate payments between local phone companies and long distance providers. When a long distance call is made, it typically transverses a number to different provider networks. A long distance provider needs to compensate…
There are a number of curious items what shows up on your business phone bill and you must be aware of these when reviewing your business phone service bill. It doesn’t matter if your bill is coming from Verizon, CenturyLink, AT&T, Comcast, or a competitive local exchange carrier like TelePacific…
A lot of things seem one way when you first hear about them but then turn out to be completely different. Yeah something might seem like a good idea but... there’s usually a catch. Many people have to learn this the hard way. They try to save but it ends…
Business phone lines or POTS lines, or Plain Old Telephone Service, provided by local phone companies, like Verizon, CenturyLink/Lumen, AT&T and other rural local service providers, are the neglected telephone service that can be difficult to manage and could be costing a large company thousands upon thousands of dollars each…
The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), utilizing Time Division Multiplexing, is the platform of choice for small businesses and their alarm lines and fax machines. What happens when the PSTN goes away? You can tell what technologies are going to stick around and which ones are going by the wayside…
In 1907 AT&T’s slogan was “One Policy, One System, Universal Service.” AT&T, through the Kingsbury Commitment, was allowed to operate as a monopoly and not subject to antitrust action. That monopoly continued until 1984. At that point, AT&T was broken up into smaller regional phone companies, called RBOCs, or Regional…
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