1. “Death of the PSTN…!”
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2. The Changing Face of Business Communications
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Smart Devices
Smart phones, tablets, PCs
Mobility
Increasingly mobile workforce
Faster Broadband
Broadband speeds accelerating
Unified Communications
Users using a variety of communications tools
Generation Y
Expect advanced
communications tools
Business
Communications

3. Time is Running Out for the PSTN
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By 2018 only 6% of
American household will
use the PSTN
Of the 14M US business
lines shipped in 2013 over
75% were VoIP based
FCC to switch off the
PSTN by 2018
POTS revenue to decline
by almost 70% by 2018
AT&T petitions for
accelerated sunset plan
for the PSTN to divert
funds to Broadband
PSTN
All IP Network

4. 145 years, It’s been a good run! Time to change!
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You are Here!
Less than 3 years till the wind down
1875 2018 2020
Invention of PSTN
Alexander Graham Bell started
American Bell
…
PSTN
3 Years Away from wind down do
you really want to be on it now?