Moving Away from the PSTN

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Moving Away from the PSTN

AT&T's spokesman, the Internet Innovation Alliance co-chair, Jamal Simmons, has an op-ed piece about moving away from the old telephone network to bring about awesomeness.

He describes trials that AT&T would like to do about the transition from the PSTN to the all-IP network and compares it to the DTV trials in Wilmington NC. He makes a good case.

Except the Internet Innovation Alliance is an astroturf group for AT&T. Read the background here and here. Even eWeek called the IIA out as Astroturf during the T-Mobile-ATT merger.

I would have thought with the fragmentation of the news outlets and news industry, that Astroturf groups would have a harder time gaining influence. It looks like it is actually easier, because every news outlet - web, radio or TV - needs cash. And astroturf has cash. Look at this video about the Koch Brothers and their massive influence. (Ignore whether you agree with the Koch Bros. or not, but look at the way they have been able to get their message out there, repeated over and over.) Repeat something often enough and people take it as true.

At least AT&T is trying to win over the FCC and the public, VZ just said I'm doing it by replacing NY and NJ areas washed away by Storm Sandy with fixed LTE.

I have a solution for the copper plant: structural separation. Cough it up instead of retiring it. Let the CLECs and other ISPs' use it in order to reach small busiiness and consumers with different options.



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