Plain Old Telephone Service lines power alarm panels, elevator phones, fax machines, door access systems, emergency call boxes, and a range of other analog applications that many businesses across multiple locations still depend on today.
But POTS infrastructure is being sunset. As the FCC has deregulated the legacy copper network, carriers are no longer required to maintain it at the standards they once did. The result has been dramatic and ongoing price increases for POTS lines, combined with declining service quality and reliability. Organizations that do not proactively address their POTS exposure will continue paying more each month for infrastructure that is becoming less dependable.
For multi-site businesses, the challenge is compounded by scale. You may have dozens or hundreds of POTS lines across dozens of locations, each serving a different application, with no centralized inventory of what exists or what it is being used for. Aska Advisors starts there. We build a complete inventory of your POTS exposure, analyze the use case for every line, and design a coordinated migration to modern alternatives that is executed consistently across your entire footprint.
