Nature is a fickle beast. Telecommunications and cable companies have long sought a perfect record for service delivery. The reality, however, is that nature tends to work against human endeavors. Outages are a fact of life in telecommunications, which is why an entire industry has arisen around disaster recovery services for phones and internet. In […]

Since the rapid rise of the internet, the proliferation of domain names, and the advent of search engine optimization, the world of marketing appears to have forgotten about toll free numbers. Many companies believe that toll free numbers have lost relevance in the marketplace, and so too have many consumers. Major companies have begun ditching […]

In 2014, the FCC passed a recommendation for the telecom industry to transition to an all-IP network by 2020. This was meant as a way to encourage legacy carriers to move away from traditional TDM switches and toward an entirely internet-based network. At first, the industry balked at the suggestion. Most major carriers simply refused […]