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  • Orbit Editorial Team

    EU PSTN Switch-Off: The National Retirement Phasing Migration Checklist

    European copper retirement runs on member-state schedules, not one EU-wide date — Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and the Nordics each publish their own second-generation exchange withdrawal windows. This EU-specific runbook walks the tenant-owned checklist: mapping each member-state line inventory, deciding BYO-carrier versus port per country, getting exchange-level notices in writing, and running staged cut-overs ahead of the earliest national window.

    • EU PSTN switch-off
    • copper retirement
    • European carriers
    • national retirement phasing
    • SIP trunking
    • number porting
    • BYO carrier
    • industry news
  • Orbit Editorial Team

    PSTN Switch-Off and Copper Retirement, Explained — What It Demands of Your Telephony Estate

    Regulators and incumbents across the EU and UK are retiring the public switched telephone network — copper access lines replaced by IP-only service on announced timelines. This explainer covers what the switch-off actually is, what copper retirement demands of a tenant's carrier and numbering posture, and the tenant-owned migration checklist for moving to SIP.

    • PSTN switch-off
    • copper retirement
    • SIP trunking
    • BYO carrier
    • number porting
    • industry news
  • Orbit Editorial Team

    SIP Trunking and BYO Carrier for AI Voice — Keep Your Carrier, Gain an Agent

    SIP trunking with bring-your-own-carrier lets an enterprise keep its incumbent carrier and phone numbers while pointing the trunk at Orbit for AI voice agents and programmable voice. This guide covers the tradeoffs, how Orbit ingests customer trunks, failover and latency, and a buyer checklist for when BYO beats bundled telephony.

    • SIP trunking
    • BYO carrier
    • AI voice agents
    • programmable voice
    • enterprise voice
    • 2026

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