On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > >From NewsScan Daily > 11 June 2004 > > > BT TO SHUT DOWN 'CIRCUIT-SWITCHED' NETWORK IN FAVOR OF VOIP > U.K. giant British Telecom will gradually shut down its traditional > circuit-switched network and migrate over to technologies that route phone > calls over the Internet. The change "will deliver our vision of a > converged, multimedia world where our customers can access any > communications service from any device, anywhere -- at broadband speed," > says BT Wholesale CEO Paul Reynolds. The new system will enable each > subscriber to have a single phone number for both mobile and fixed-line > services, and will make possible such add-on features as family conference > calls, video streaming and voice-activated phones. BT estimates that by the > 2008-09 fiscal year, the new network could save it about ??1 billion > annually. (AP 10 June 2004) That's interesting. During the mid-90s, one of our lecturers said (and remember this was before broadband), rthat BT could save themselves a huge amount of money by scrapping the pstn (analog phone network) and give, yes give, *everybody* an isdn line. This is due to the high cost of pstn maintenance, fraying and aged cabling etc etc. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at tjfisher.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808
