The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted rules that will accelerate the retirement of copper networks in the US. As part of these new rules, the regulator has reduced regulatory requirements around network transitions, while granting companies the authority to "grandfather legacy voice services, lower-speed data telecommunications services, and interconnected Voice over IP (VoIP) service provisioned over copper wire." According to the FCC, this will free up tens of billions of dollars each year for carriers to instead focus on their respective high-speed network rollouts. The changes come after the ... (full story)