Tag: Pots

December 13, 2023

An article about controlling telecom costs may not seem cutting-edge in 2023, but these strategies can save you money and make a huge difference to your business. Controlling costs associated with telecom, an essential business tool, is one of the […]

March 3, 2023

Right up front, let me say that I understand why contact centers exist. But I dislike them intensely. In fact, to me, contact centers, although often providing an acceptable level of service at a higher level of efficiency than traditional […]

February 7, 2023

Over the last several months there have been countless articles written about the state of POTS (plain old telephone services) lines and their demise. The reality is that copper, analog lines aren’t going to disappear and stop working overnight. The […]

December 27, 2022

With regulatory changes to plain old telephone service (POTS) prices now in effect, many enterprises still relying on copper-based telephony services are in a vulnerable situation — one which can cost them thousands of dollars or more per month in […]

August 5, 2022

I’ve always loved the term plain old telephone service (POTS). It’s so folksy and unassuming. It’s also very clearly a product of a monopoly system, where the technology provider didn’t have to worry about any competition. Can you imagine a […]

August 4, 2022

As much as I hate to admit it, and despite the fact that I rely on and love my low-tech, old time hardwired copper lines (yes, I still have two in my house), POTS lines are going the way of […]

August 3, 2022

With regulatory changes to plain old telephone service (POTS) prices now in effect, many enterprises still relying on copper-based telephony services are in a vulnerable situation — one which can cost them thousands of dollars or more per month in […]

July 7, 2022

Imagine—you’re a new team member at a small or medium-sized business (SMB). You’ve recently realized a bummer: That new staple of your workflow—your new company’s customer relationship management (CRM) tool—lacks integrated unified communications as a service (UCaaS). Anxiety would grip […]

May 27, 2022

If you feel like you and your IT colleagues spent the past two-plus years barely keeping up or deploying systems and processes in a way that was just “good enough” to get through the disruption — you’re not alone. That […]

May 25, 2022

The FCC order 19-72A1 has caused quite a frenzy in the telecom industry. Many have interrupted this order to mean that plain-old-telephony-service (POTS) lines are going away in August 2022. However, this order is not a mandate, and it just […]

February 9, 2022

I first recall hearing that the telecom carriers were setting timelines for decommissioning their copper infrastructure and no longer providing time-division multiplexing (TDM) services like plain old telephone service (POTS) lines, T1s, and primary rate interface (PRI) circuits in 2014. […]

January 13, 2022

Plain Old Telephony Service (aka POTS), the legacy analog copper phone line, is going away. While this isn’t generally a business concern for human voice telephony (as virtually all have already migrated to voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) or mobile) […]

December 1, 2021

All year I’ve written about how telecom carriers are in the beginning stages of decommissioning their copper wire-based networks. These networks are aging, parts aren’t available, and technicians are retiring. With currently 40 million plain old telephone services (POTS) lines […]

November 5, 2021

This week, we share a slew of announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2021, Poly updates its Microsoft Teams Rooms solutions, and 8×8 reveals enhancements for its experience as a service (XCaaS) platform. IntelePeer introduces an all-in-one monitoring, registration and remediation system […]

May 5, 2021

The issue of sunsetting copper-based telecom services was first addressed in 2014, when AT&T announced a trial to eliminate landlines at Carbon Hill, Ala., and West Delray Beach, Fla. If approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), AT&T planned to stop offering […]

March 4, 2020

Why do we have so many analog ports, and do we need them? This question continues to come up repeatedly in our conversations with clients. Analog telephones use standard copper wire, connect to plain old telephone service (POTS) lines, are […]

March 29, 2016

Verizon has been for overcharging New York POTS voice customers $1,000 to $1,500 each, claims the New Networks Institute. New Networks Institute, which is planning legal challenges to Verizon’s pricing and financing plans, says that the excess charges were diverted […]

March 16, 2016

Verizon is seeing another challenge its copper retirement plans in New York City from competitive carrier Transbeam, which says its Ethernet over Copper (EoC) customers could be compromised. The telco says that Transbeam’s call to delay the migration of copper […]