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Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. In 1915, he made the first-ever transcontinental (aka coast-to-coast) phone call, helping to pioneer the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

The Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) has formed the backbone of the UK Telecoms industry for over a century, but this legacy technology will finally be switched off at the end of 2025.

EPABX system facilitates seamless internal and external communication in businesses, evolving from electromechanical to ...

Network operator Openreach (BT) has kicked off their first UK pilot to test the effectiveness of a targeted approach for ...

Telephone companies are pulling the plug on landline phones in a bid to get the UK to switch to more modern technology. The UK’s ageing landline network is set to be switched off in 2025, as the ...

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The old copper phone network will be switched off in 2025 and phones will instead use the internet to make calls. That doesn't mean you have to only use a mobile phone - but there are some changes ...

Leading UK telco BT has ramped up the pace of its plans to evolve its national communications network by switching off the legacy Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) in December 2025, and has ...

This transition will see the retirement of the public switched telephone network (PSTN), which Irish consumers and businesses have been using for nearly 100 years to make and receive landline ...

Sometimes the phone doesn’t even ring, but not for lack of service—instead, because I somehow set it to one of Apple’s new, complex “focus” modes, I’ve effectively silenced the ringer.