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The FCC’s chief technology officer urged “solid engineering” to meet...

The FCC’s chief technology officer urged “solid engineering” to meet the challenges of transitioning to an all Internet Protocol telephone service environment. The remarks came Friday at a conference on the IP transition. It’s important to maintain the established qualities…

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of the circuit-switched PSTN and associated customer expectations, like reliability and low cost, while also fixing some of the legacy technical restrictions, Henning Schulzrinne said. “We want to avoid a protracted transition. The public can’t afford to have two different systems for 20 years,” he said. Schulzrinne encouraged companies and regulators to think of VoIP as more than just a voice system, but rather as “an opportunity to have real-time communication as a base level service that is available everywhere."