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Voice is the traditional application for circuit-switched networks.
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Let me try to explain it in fairly neutral terms but they have to do with what happens when you run technologies which are most at home on circuit-switched networks on packet switched networks.
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Customers of its FiOS, fiber-to-the-home lines still get their voice service over the circuit-switched network, so Verizon will still have more than 30 million access lines in areas where it also has high concentrations of its FiOS.
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Let me try to explain it in fairly neutral terms but they have to do with what happens when you run technologies which are most at home on circuit-switched networks on packet switched networks.
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With LTE (when we get there), voice should all be VoIP because it will travel over an IP network rather than a circuit-switched one.
Carriers Should Accept That Openness Can Be Good for Them 2009
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Figuring out how to deliver circuit-switched calls on a packet network was going to result in compromises and costs I detailed back in April.
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The same thing goes for GSM/UMTS operators like AT&T and T-Mobile — circuit-switched radio for voice, packet-switched for data.
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Skype has a 20-mile head start in the marathon transition from circuit-switched pricing models to super-cheap voice communications.
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With LTE (when we get there), voice should all be VoIP because it will travel over an IP network rather than a circuit-switched one.
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Voice is the traditional application for circuit-switched networks.
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