no dialtone: the end of the public switched telephone network
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The transition from the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to an all-IP converged communications infrastructure is now underway. This presentation describes a framework for the ensuring that essential public interest and economic goals are preserved in the process. Presented at the 2013 TPRC Conference on Telecommunications and Information Policy. Full paper available at http://bit.ly/16Ve7re.TRANSCRIPT
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Kevin Werbach e Wharton School, Univ. of Pennsylvania
No Dialtone e End of the Public Switched Telephone Network (full paper available at http://bit.ly/16Ve7re)
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e PSTN “Any common carrier switched network, whether by wire or radio, including local exchange carriers, interexchange carriers, and mobile service providers, that use the North American Numbering Plan in connection with the provision of switched services.”
47 C.F.R. §20.3
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e PSTN “Any common carrier switched network, whether by wire or radio, including local exchange carriers, interexchange carriers, and mobile service providers, that use the North American Numbering Plan in connection with the provision of switched services.”
47 C.F.R. §20.3
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e PSTN “Any common carrier switched network, whether by wire or radio, including local exchange carriers, interexchange carriers, and mobile service providers, that use the North American Numbering Plan in connection with the provision of switched services.”
47 C.F.R. §20.3
POTS
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One of the Great Technological Achievements in Human History
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e PSTN is Dying
• Residential switched access lines – 194 million in 2000 – 101 million 2012
• % of US Households with POTS – 93% in 2003 – 25% in 2013
• Why? IP convergence + wireless – 43% of homes wireless-only and 32%
served by VOIP by end of 2013
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Going, Going…
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• AT&T Trials Petition (11/7/12) – No requirement to maintain legacy PSTN networks – No obligation to interconnect – Customers can be transitioned to IP-based without permission
• AT&T Infrastructure announcement (same day) – $14 billion over 3 years to upgrade 75% to U-Verse;
the rest served via wireless
• Verizon’s Lowell McAdam (July 2013) – “[E]very place we have FiOS, we are going to kill the copper. We are
going to just take it out of service and we are going to move those services onto FiOS.”
– “[In rural areas,] we are going to cut the copper off there. We are going to do it over wireless.”
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• 2009 NBP public notice • TAC initiative • 2011-12 Workshops • Technology Transitions Task Force • 5/13 public notice on trials
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Verizon’s Response
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What Voice Link is Missing • Medical alert home monitoring services
• Telecommunications relay service for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Digital Video Recorder (DVR) program guide downloads
• Credit card processing terminals for small businesses
• ATM machines for small businesses
• Home alarm monitoring
• Calling to 900-number (paid) services
• Collect calls
• Calling cards or other dial-around calls
• International dialing (without a supplemental plan)
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What to Make of is • e transition is a good (and necessary) thing. • Unnecessary regulation or "nancial burdens are bad.
But… • Neither the rationale nor the content of telecom
regulation is necessarily tied to a technology. • Our expectations of the PSTN haven’t diminished.
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Legacy Silo Legal Structure
Data
Telephony (Title II)
Cable (Title VI)
Broadcast (Title III)
(also legacy slides – from 2005!)
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Data Voice
Emerging Reality
Web
Video
File Transfer
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Data Voice
Emerging Reality
Web
Video
File Transfer
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All or Nothing Regulation • Ad hoc response to VOIP under ancillary authority • Open Internet Order mess
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Road to Nowhere?
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Six Dimensions of the PSTN
1. a technical architecture 2. a regulatory arrangement 3. a business and market
structure 4. universal connectivity 5. strategic national
infrastructure 6. a social contract
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1. a technical architecture 2. a regulatory arrangement 3. a business and market
structure 4. universal connectivity 5. strategic national
infrastructure 6. a social contract
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What Remains?
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Interconnection
• Distinguish from non-discrimination – Central issue is universality, not fairness
• Are commercial forces enough? – Comcast-Level 3, Cogent-Verizon – Terminating access monopoly – Port capacity and other variables
• Impact of usage caps and end-user pricing • FCC data roaming requirement:
“commercially reasonable terms,” with dispute resolution (upheld by DC Circuit)
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Coordination
• 47 USC §256(b)(1): “oversight of coordinated network planning by … providers of telecommunications service….”
• Numbering – Some unresolved technical standards for VOIP interconnection – Need for PSTN-to-IP number portability database
• Network reliability – E.g. requirements for battery backup
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Social Commitments
• Emergency services (E911) • Universal service • Disability access • Data privacy (CPNI) • Consumer protection (slamming/cramming) • Law enforcement access (CALEA) • Etc.
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Making it Work
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Transition Mechanisms • “No carrier shall discontinue, reduce, or impair service … unless and
until there shall "rst have been obtained from the Commission a certi"cate that neither the present nor future public convenience and necessity will be adversely affected thereby.” 47 USC §214(a)(3)
• Cutting the Gordian Knot of Internet regulation • Requirements for 214 approval
– Interconnection on commercially reasonable terms, subject to arbitration and disclosure requirements.
– Participate in coordination mechanisms for PSTN-to-IP numbering integration and network reliability.
– Continue to meet social obligations.
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Date Certain • Analogy to DTV transition
– Most proposals suggest 2017 or 2018
• Date certain for what exactly? – AT&T’s view: When TDM interconnection rights end
• My proposal: carriers meeting interconnection, coordination, social contract obligations freed from legacy requirements at that point
• Trials and troubleshooting for implementation surely will be required
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I have to hang up now…
Full paper available at http://bit.ly/16Ve7re
[email protected] Twitter: @kwerb
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• Slide 6-7: Kim Seng (http://www.#ickr.com/photos/captainkimo/8717789122/)
• Slide 10-12: US Fish & Wildlife Service (http://www.#ickr.com/photos/usfwsnortheast/8151170166/)
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