FCC to Vote on Scrapping Telecom Landlines

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): Federal regulators are set to take a step Thursday toward retiring the existing landline telephone system in favor of a new, digital-based network.

The Federal Communications Commission was scheduled to vote to allow regional trials in which phone companies would switch networks in a particular area to newer digital technology and gauge the impact on consumers and small businesses.

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