FCC Determined to Move Industry Off Copper Lines: Wireline Chief
The FCC is doing what it can to promote the move of providers to IP-based networks and off copper lines, Wireline Bureau Chief Joseph Calascione said in a blog post Friday. He compared legacy networks to old Christmas lights “that would go out if a single bulb in the string was dead.” User-friendly features including “robocall mitigation and Next-Gen 911 [get] passed along seamlessly from one provider to another” but are stopped as soon as they hit the “dead-bulb” of old copper lines.
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“At the physical infrastructure level, we’re streamlining our rules to make it easier for providers to rip out their old copper lines and replace them with modern, durable fiber optic lines or wireless services that are capable of providing the modern technologies that all Americans deserve,” Calascione said. “At the network level, we want to correct the incentives that have perpetuated the use of these old, 19th Century technologies.”