The IP Transition: Great Expectations Or Bleak House?

The fact that the marketplace is embracing the IP Transition means we’re in the best of times. However, the government seems to be stuck in neutral when it comes to modernizing its regulatory framework to account for the IP Transition. What’s sidetracked us?

Our efforts have been plagued by three critical mistakes.

First, we are bogged down in brouhahas from the past. Second, we are failing to seize the present. When it comes to embracing the IP Transition, we can’t keep putting off until the unspecified future the things we can and should do today, starting with modernizing our rules. Third, we are becoming crippled by fear of the future. Embracing creative destruction means that something must be abandoned -- and that something is the PSTN.