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Getting fit to switch
| 题名： | Getting fit to switch |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Chris Pateman |
| 摘要： | First the good news: Britain is heading full-speed towards a digitally interconnected future where all telecommunications and data transactions take place over reliable high speed fibre optics. Now the bad news: your existing automated key-holder alerts, fire alarms and remote back-office support services will probably stop working as a result. BT argues that the old, familiar PSTN (public switched telephone network) copper infrastructure is well past its sell-by date, and costing a fortune to maintain. PSTN is already being retired in some parts of the country. It is due to be phased out completely across the UK by the end of 2025. And this is not something that can be kicked into the long grass. This is happening now. To give an idea of how urgent things are, Openreach's two initial trial areas (Salisbury and Mildenhall) are already at the stage where, from 6 June this year, customers who have not transitioned are having their broadband speeds throttled and their ability to make outgoing calls on their copper lines restricted at exchange level: in other words, there's nothing they can do about it. They are being forced to get in touch with their communications provider to put new IP-compatible kit in, just to be able to use the internet and make phone calls. |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Transport engineer |
| 期： | Aug. |
| 页码： | 28-29 |
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