Changing Technologies Drive Need for Faster Copper Retirements: Georgetown Center
The Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy urged the FCC on Monday to adopt policies making it easier for carriers to retire legacy copper lines (see 2510010031). Discontinuance rules were crafted in the Communications Act of 1934, noted the…
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center's filing in docket 25-209. The rapid spread of AI technologies “will inevitably drive essentially all businesses to seek to both reduce costs and improve the quality of the goods and services they provide,” it added. The move from narrowband copper to broadband “has facilitated consumers’ ability to consume voice, data, and video services with speeds and quality that [were] unthinkable only a few short years ago.”