Aging PSTN blots UK network resilience
As UK policymakers scrutinise infrastructure resilience, equipment failures in the old public switched telephone network (PSTN) have led a recent rise in outages.
This article includes:
- Organisations: BT; BT Business; BT Consumer; BT Group; KCOM; National Infrastructure Commission (NIC); Ofcom; Openreach; Virgin Media O2 (VM O2); Vodafone Group; Vodafone UK.
- Geographies: Europe; United Kingdom (UK).
- People: Sultan Mahmud; Howard Watson.
- Themes: 2G; 3G; Backup power; Connected Nations; Copper networks; Digital landlines; Digitalisation; Fibre (FTTP/FTTH); Hardware failures; Infrastructure; Infrastructure resilience; Legacy technology; Mobile networks; Network outages; Network resilience; Network security; Power cuts; Resilience; Security; Software updates.
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