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February 05, 2007
This Just In: KPN will be 100% VoIP by 2010
Special Thanks to Dave Burstein for the heads up.
"TELEPHONE OF THE KPN STARTING FROM 2010 ONLY BY VOIP
The Netherlands telecommunications company KPN wants to be
traditional telephone network in the year 2010 completely to switch
off, reported German Press Agency. The telephone calls are to then
run exclusively over Internet minutes (IP), said the boss of the KPN
Festnetzsparte, Eelco Blok, the ~Srestaurant week~T. A complete door
from the conventional Telefonie would be a radical, but consistent
step in view of the general trend to supply each kind of data - also
television programs - in the IP procedure. Thus the Telekom
infrastructure does not change fundamentally, numerous jobs for any
more is not used.
In Germany something similar initiates itself, however rather in
secret: Under the designation NGN (NEXT generation network) some
Arcor or Hansenet/Alice customer is already tied up by Voice of over
IP instead of over classical exchange technique - usually even
unknowingly, as the computer magazine reports c't in its Monday
appearing expenditure 4/07 in the article ~Sparting from the
telephone network~T. In addition, the German Telekom cannot apparent
extract itself from no more the suction of the IP technology and sees
its welfare on a long-term basis likewise in the conversion of all
nets to IP technology. (gr/c't)"
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Just saw that Richard Stastny also blogged about this.
The transition of the PSTN at KPN by 2010 is not really news for many of the people who have been attending the VON Events over the years. But it is nice to see what was predicted to become a reality.
Tags: KPN, VON, voip, Jeff Pulver, Dave Burstein, Richard Stastny
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Comments
Deutsche Telekom mulls sale of fixed-line ops in Spain, France -
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/afx/2007/02/01/afx3384696.html
Voip Payment Services will change and revolutionize the way wholesale minutes are bought and sold, much in the way the internet changed the way stocks are now bought and sold online rather than manually going through a stock broker.
Posted by: Dean Hedges at February 5, 2007 05:19 PM