Legacy PSTN applications cause confusion: Disclaimers are no substitute for actual service

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John Lindsay

Keywords

Telecommunications, Legacy Systems,

Abstract

When faced with the need to move their services to the National Broadband Network (NBN), many consumers discover quite late in the process that their new NBN based service has left their legacy PSTN connect devices behind.

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