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Verizon announces end of landline coverage pending FCC approval
www.mytwintiers.com/news-header/tech-news/verizon-announces-end-of-landline-coverage-pending-fcc-approval/
Replying to @Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club
Fair enough.
POTS is all but dead in Australia (chopped up for NBN FTTN), pretty sure most of Europe killed ‘real’ POTS in the 80s with ISDN.
US is actually an outlier still having a copper pair that’s purely analogue.
Replying to @ms_lane@lemmy.world
We have 20-yr old equipment that still utilizes POTS that we’ll have to upgrade when Verizon gets their wish. We had just reconfigured things to leverage Verizon POTS because the terrestrial phone provider abandoned their service suddenly last year. I was hoping it’d be good for a while. No such luck.
Replying to @PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
Can you not just get some ATAs? The other guy talked about his AVM router with a built-in ATA, but you can get them as standalone devices for next to nothingm and they work fine for voice, fax or modems up to 33.6k.
Well, I didn’t really think about that. Thanks for the suggestion! Are there any that stand out? My cursory search brings up the more expensive versions.