Optical Solutions makes a device called Universal Demarcation Point, which sits in a customer's house and provides six POTS lines, two-way analog/digital video (CATV), and scalable high-speed data.
Changes in Regulations and Accounting: Under this model, all DSL, and IP services, like U-Verse, including the VOIP telephone service, are not counted as lines, even though they use these wires -- causing a drop in the POTS access lines.
Local Service revenues are mostly from the copper-based "POTS", "Plain Old Telephone Service", lines.
The 'Local Service' revenues are mostly from the copper-based "POTS", "Plain Old Telephone Service", lines.
The FCC has today announced a new Task Force to deal with the difficult task of creating policy for a next-generation communications network based on an IP infrastructure, as opposed to the copper-line POTS (plain old telephone service) network which has been in place since the late 19th century.
Verizon is supplying the accounting of one class of service -- copper-based, phone lines that are used mostly for voice phone calling, commonly known as "POTS", Plain Old Telephone Service. (These lines are sometimes also called "TDM" or "switched access").
It shows that special access lines eclipsed regular phone lines long ago, and the regular "POTS", (plain old telephone service) access lines (also called "switched access") accounts for only 15% of total lines.
In a previous article we detailed that the phone companies have manipulated the accounting of lines-in-service to only include a small subset, specifically, basic POTS, plain old telephone service lines, while leaving out that the majority are business broadband and data lines, known as "special access".
You can use a POTS (plain old telephone service) line, an online or cellular phone, as long as you have a dedicated phone number.
Note: "POTS" is "Plain Old Telephone Service".
