Legacy copper phone lines are becoming too expensive to maintain, causing telecom providers to raise rates, reduce service quality and availability. These copper lines support your life safety devices such as fire alarm panels, elevator phones, safety phones, building entry systems and more. It’s time to modernize and reclaim profits.

For years, POTS lines have been considered the standard for reliability, especially for mission-critical systems such as fire alarms, elevators, and emergency phones. But with the copper network being phased out, relying on POTS lines is no longer as safe or dependable as many think. Aging infrastructure, rising costs, and increasing compliance requirements are turning these once-trusted lines into potential liabilities.
 
This webinar will provide a clear look at the facts, the risks, and the options for moving forward. We will explore the current state of POTS lines, the reasons behind rising phone bills, and the challenges organizations face when maintaining them. You’ll also learn what to consider when planning a smooth transition and where other organizations are in their POTS replacement journey.
 
In this session, you will learn:
 
• The current state of POTS lines
• Why POTS phone bills are rising
• Common challenges faced with POTS lines
• Why some organizations are reluctant to replace them
• Migration factors and key considerations
• How others are managing their POTS transitions
• Why replacing POTS lines is critical for safety and cost control
• Practical steps to move forward with POTS replacement
 
This webinar is ideal for facilities managers, property owners, and anyone responsible for maintaining critical emergency devices. If your organization still relies on POTS lines, this session will provide actionable insights to help protect safety, reduce costs, and keep critical systems running smoothly.

POTS Lines: Facts, Risks and Future Options

Did you know that copper-wire POTS lines could be putting the safety of your staff and visitors at risk? Critical life safety devices still heavily rely on these lines and require a stable connection to remain functional and compliant, including emergency devices such as elevator phones, building entry systems, alarm panels and emergency phones. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to maintain safety and stay compliant with POTS replacement.

In this webinar, you will learn:

-The current state of POTS lines
-Why POTS phone bills are rising
-Common challenges faced with POTS lines
-Migration factors and considerations
-Why POTS replacement can’t be overlooked
-How to move forward with POTS replacement

This webinar is ideal for any organization looking to maintain safety, remain compliant, reduce phone costs and learn why now is the best time to replace POTS lines.

The Top Risks of Waiting to Replace POTS Lines

Are you concerned about the costs and reliability of your copper POTS lines? As phone carriers are decommissioning these lines, raising rates, and providing less support, this creates a problem for devices that still rely on POTS lines and puts your governmental entity at risk of non-compliance or worse. 

Critical devices that are affected include:

• Fire alarms
• Elevator phones
• Building entry systems
• Public safety phones
• And more

Ooma AirDial is the award-winning POTS replacement solution that replaces outdated POTS lines while keeping your facilities safe and compliant by providing a flexible and dependable alternative for all POTS replacement applications.  

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Why POTS phone bills are rising
• Common challenges faced with POTS lines
• Migration factors and considerations
• Why POTS replacement can’t be overlooked
• How to move forward with POTS replacement

In this webinar, we will look at how to reduce costs with POTS replacement and ensure that these lines are reliable and compliant.

Navigating POTS Replacement: Public Sector Considerations

There’s a new urgency to replace obsolete POTS lines with a solution that enables hospitals and healthcare organizations to keep using their existing critical emergency devices. According to a new survey, almost 90% of enterprises are swiftly migrating to reduce liability, ensure compliance, and cut costs. Those that start planning now can avoid the rush to the finish line that’s likely to occur when POTS lines are decommissioned. Join us for our upcoming webinar as we explore the findings from this survey in-depth and show you how to cross the finish line faster in the race to replace POTS lines.

The Race to Replace POTS Lines: Keeping Your People and Facilities Safe

Join Clinton Fitch of Ooma as he dives into what separates Ooma AirDial from the other solutions out there for POTS replacement. Here are the 6 things that make Ooma AirDial the leader in POTS replacement: 

1. It is an all-in-one solution that includes data, phone telephony, hardware. We manufacture the equipment and provide 24/7/365 support, so you get everything you need from one provider at one low monthly bill. 
2. You can easily self-install it or it can be deployed as a complete turnkey solution with white glove support.  We can provide everything from the assessment to the installation for you. 
3. AirDial was designed with all the applicable guidelines of UL, ASME, PCI, California fire marshal, PCI and so much more. 
4. Patented MultiPath technology routes voice traffic over LTE and ethernet simultaneously, so you have an active-active topology with immediate failover.  The bottom line – no calls are ever dropped. 
5. Remote device management portal gives you the ability to monitor all your devices regardless of their location. You’ll receive SMS and email alerts when outages occur and when emergency calls are made. 
6. MFVN network ensures that communications never transverse the public internet.
 
Visit https://www.ooma.com/business/airdial-pots-line-replacement/ to learn more.

The Top 6 Features of Ooma AirDial

There’s a new urgency to replace obsolete POTS lines with a solution that enables facilities and property managers to keep using their existing critical emergency devices. According to a new survey, almost 90% of enterprises are swiftly migrating to reduce liability, ensure compliance, and cut costs. Those that start planning now can avoid the rush to the finish line that’s likely to occur when POTS lines are decommissioned. Join us for our upcoming webinar as we explore the findings from this survey in-depth and show you how to cross the finish line faster in the race to replace POTS lines.

The Urgency of POTS Replacement: Keeping Your People and Facilities Safe

“We found that 90% of enterprise customers are already moving towards some sort of POTS replacement,” says Clinton Fitch of Ooma. “They either have a plan in place or they’re doing pilots or something along those lines. What that means, though, is that 10% of those being surveyed had no plan. And it really is now a rush to get it done.” Clinton shares with us the finding of a recent survey they conducted with Foundry. Listen to the podcast to learn more.

The Race to Replace POTS Lines is On

The safety of students, faculty, and staff is a top priority for colleges and universities, and as costs rise, educational facilities also need to find a way to reduce costs to remain competitive. How do colleges and universities prepare for long-term growth, provide a safe environment for all, and reduce costs? The answer lies in their copper lines and the life safety devices they support. Watch this webinar and we will show you how to navigate both.

Reduce Copper Wire Phone Costs and Keep Your Campus Safe

In August 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that carriers no longer needed to maintain their copper line network and also removed pricing protections on these copper phone lines. While still prevalent on many commonly used lines such as elevator phones, building entry systems, fire alarms and security systems, it is not always the case that these lines are just turned off. Instead, customers are receiving less support and are now seeing their phone bills steadily increasing.

In this podcast, we will take a look at why these lines are still important, how to reduce costs and what steps to take next.

The Copper Sunset happened, why are copper phone lines still an issue?

There is one overhead expense that has been lingering over you for years. It’s all those legacy analog phone expenses that support your life safety devices (such as fire alarm panels, elevator phones and building entry systems). If you checked your phone bill recently, you’ll see that it has skyrocketed and is eating into your margins. As carriers decommission those lines, they are pushing costs onto you while reducing your quality of service.  So, how do you get those millions back?

Register today to learn:

-How to potentially save millions each year by modernizing your critical communications systems.
-Where to locate those overhead expenses and determine which devices are in use.
-How to keep your current life safety devices and stay compliant while migrating away from analog phone lines.
-A step-by-step guide to transforming your copper lines to a dedicated wireless network.

This webinar is ideal for businesses that are looking to save money, stay compliant and replace antiquated communications systems.

Modernize and Reclaim Profits by Optimizing This One Expense Item

Most businesses have copper wire phone lines that are confusing, unreliable and hard to maintain. While many phone lines have already moved to a digital format, vital lines such as emergency phones, fire alarms, alarm panels and building entry systems may have been overlooked.

These lines were previously tightly regulated by the FCC but their oversight of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) has now been lifted and they no longer see any reason to require carriers to continue maintaining POTS service. This has left businesses with increasing phone costs and an aging phone infrastructure that needs to be replaced.

Register today to learn:

-What the copper sunset is and what it means for your business
-Which devices are most at risk of being decommissioned
-How to prepare and what you can do about it
-How a POTS replacement solution can reduce costs and keep emergency devices running

This webinar is ideal for both large and small businesses that need to find a solution for their emergency analog devices.

Untangle Your Business From Copper Wire Phone Lines

The cost of maintaining analog POTS lines that support mission critical devices is skyrocketing, and many businesses struggle with maintaining these analog lines. Beyond being unreliable and hard to maintain, the FCC has declared that they will no longer hold carriers accountable. What this means for businesses is unchecked rate hikes, loss of support and difficulty keeping phone lines in compliance, as well as an aging phone infrastructure that needs to be replaced.

While many phone lines have already moved away from these POTS lines to a digital format, vital emergency devices often still rely on these lines and may have been overlooked. These lines include:

• Facility, burglar and fire alarm panels
• Elevator and public safety phones
• Building entry systems
• Fax machines

In this webinar, we will discuss not only what is happening but also what you can do to prepare and take action. Watch this webinar to learn how to ensure that your vital emergency devices will remain connected and affordable.  

Key Takeaways - 

· Why your phone bill keeps getting more expensive
· What are the alternative options that you have to keep your critical devices running 
· How a POTS replacement can reduce costs and keep emergency devices running
· What steps do you need to undertake a transformation from analog lines to more reliable and affordable options

How to Escape the Skyrocketing Expenses Hiding in Your Analog Lines

The FCC and state regulators have removed price caps on POTS lines. This leaves carriers free to take full advantage and significantly increase rates. However, these legacy POTS lines are still relied on to connect life safety and emergency devices such as elevator phones, safety phones, building entry systems and alarm panels. These essential devices require a constant, compliant and reliable connection and businesses can’t afford failures.

In this webinar, you will learn:

-Why are POTS lines are going away
-Why POTS phone bills are rising
-Common challenges faced with POTS lines
-POTS line migration factors and considerations
-How to move forward with POTS replacement

This webinar is ideal for any organization looking to keep their devices connected, remain compliant, reduce phone costs and learn why now is the best time to replace POTS lines.

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