More Reliable Service
Modern digital networks can be monitored in real time, allowing faster detection of outages.
Faster Recovery After Storms
In extreme weather events, modern networks can be restored more quickly meaning less downtime and more resilience.
Less Risk for Copper Theft
Copper theft has caused thousands of service disruptions nationwide. Thieves often target communities looking for high value copper that they can steal and sell as scrap metal. Moving toward modern networks reduces vulnerable copper infrastructure in the field, protects communities, and limits outages from theft.
Better Protections from Scams and Spoofing
Digital networks support stronger tools to detect suspicious activity and combat robocalls and caller ID spoofing.
Critical Emergency Communications
Public safety and the communities they support increasingly depends on modern digital networks for Enhanced 911, better location accuracy and real-time alerts.
Smarter Investment in Communities
Outdated regulatory requirements in some areas still require maintaining aging copper networks — even where modern alternatives are widely available.
Supporting those legacy systems diverts billions of dollars each year away from investments in forward-looking communications infrastructure that Americans rely on today and will connect our communities for decades to come.