CNA Explains: Are landlines still relevant?

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SINGAPORE: For up to four hours on Tuesday (Oct 8), calls to emergency services, hospitals and businesses were disrupted because of a Singtel landline outage. Members of the public were asked to SMS ...

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card transactions were affected by Singtel's landline outage.\nWhy do we still need landlines?\nISDN is more reliable, according to Assistant Professor Purnima Murali Mohan of the Singapore Institute of Technology’s infocomm technology cluster.\nNewer, more hi-tech alternatives like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) can be found in the digital phone line services offered by local telcos.\nHere, calls are made over broadband internet connections, and rely on IP-based infrastructure.\nThis infrastructure uses packet switching, said Asst Prof Purnima. It means data is broken down into smaller packets and transmitted through the network.\nIf one packet is lost, the whole message has to be sent again. \nWhen there is high congestion on the network - such as at a concert where many people in the same area might be trying to send messages at the same time - there'll be a lag in the transmission of data. That’s not ideal for emergency situations.\n\n\n\n\nWith ISDN, there is a dedicated channel for each ongoing call. When one person dials 999 and Channel One is in use, no one else can use it or share the bandwidth, said Asst Prof Purnima. \nOther callers will be using separate channels until Channel One is released by the first person, she explained.\nShe likened ISDN to railway infrastructure where tracks are built for one train to travel on. The internet, on the other hand, is more of an expressway shared - and with the potential to be clogged up - by different vehicles.\nMr Oo Gin Lee, managing director of a tech-focused public relations company, added that landlines are always connected whereas mobile phones depend on last-mile wireless connectivity.\n“During power outages, landlines should still work,” he said. Digital lines however will be cut off if internet connectivity is affected.\n“It’s rare for the reverse to happen - landlines going down instead of the internet.\"\nIs Singtel the only option?\nIn Singapore, Singtel owns most of the core infrastructure, said Asst Prof Purnima. \nIf other telcos want to use it, they would have to build services on it, she said, likening it to an apartment owned by Singtel with other telcos like Starhub and M1 leasing.\nThis way of doing things is cost-efficient because infrastructure is expensive, she said.\nShe estimated the ISDN infrastructure to be at least 17 years old, based on an old Singtel report from 2007. \n\n\n\n\nMr Oo pointed to an incident in 2013 when a fire at a SingTel facility took down critical services across the island, including for customers of other telcos. \nThere seemed to be a lack of contingencies in that case, he said, and similarly so in this week's disruption.\nFor critical services and infrastructure, there should be redundancy, he said, referring to the practice of intentionally having duplicates so a system is more reliable.\n\"If you have redundancy, you should not go down for three hours, right? You should be able to immediately switch over,\" he said. \"Redundancy means that you're always on.\"\nThe Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) has started investigations into the disruption. It can impose a financial penalty of up to S$1 million (US$766,000) or 10 per cent of the annual turnover of Singtel, whichever is higher.\nWhat's the future for landlines?\nAsst Prof Purnima also pointed to a June report by IMDA, which stated requirements to connect ISDN infrastructure to “next generation networks”.\nOnce in place, IP infrastructure will serve as an automatic backup in the event of disruptions to ISDN.\nCNA has asked IMDA when this will kick in.\nOn contingencies, the authority said in a statement also sent to other media that Singapore's networks provide connectivity across voice, mobile, broadband, Wi-Fi and messaging through different service providers. \"This diversity is a key part of our infrastructure resilience,\" a spokesperson said. \nStarhub meanwhile has noted in a section on its website that both Public Switched Telephone Network and ISDN services \"will be turned off in 2025\".\nCNA has also contacted IMDA for confirmation of this.\n\n\n\n\n\nWant an issue or topic explained? 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