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Have to wonder since copper is at an all time high if it’s worth it to pull all that copper out of the ground. Wouldn’t think it would be but who knows
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.
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.
The most common routers here in Germany have POTS connectors and convert that to VOIP internally. At least for POTS with DTMF. I keep one specific router around that even still supports pulse dialing as I have two rotary phones from the 1950s and 1970s still hooked up for fun. (They work, except for the fact that nobody knows the number of my land line)
When the biggest provider in Germany switched from POTS and ISDN to VOIP there was also a number of solutions available for bigger installations, so you could keep your POTS installation while the adapter does the VOIP conversion.
So all in all switching worked mostly fine.
I keep one specific router around that even still supports pulse dialing as I have two rotary phones from the 1950s and 1970s still hooked up for fun
This router can put out enough juice to ring them like normal? If so what’s the model?
