Legacy Voice Assessment
Copper is retiring. Your fire panels do not know it yet.
Active carrier discontinuance and phase outs are affecting legacy analog lines nationwide. The copper POTS lines behind your most critical safety systems are being priced up, degraded, and shut down, often with little notice. The time to find your exposure is before the shutoff notice arrives.
What is at risk
01 / ExposureMost organizations do not know how many POTS lines they have, or what is quietly depending on them:
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Fire alarm panels. Monitoring connections that must stay up for code compliance and life safety.
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Elevator phones. Emergency lines required in every cab, often installed decades ago and forgotten.
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Security and burglar alarms. Central station reporting riding on lines the carrier plans to retire.
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Emergency and blue light phones. Campus and facility lines that exist precisely for the worst day.
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Fax, gates, and point of sale. The analog dependencies nobody inventories until they fail.
Why now
02 / UrgencyCarriers are no longer required to maintain copper. Prices are climbing, repair times are stretching, and discontinuance notices are going out nationwide. Every quarter you wait narrows your options and raises the cost.
The Legacy Voice Assessment
03 / AssessmentGage inventories every analog line across your locations, identifies what each one actually supports, and delivers a prioritized replacement plan using modern alternatives engineered for life safety requirements.
Inventory.
We find every POTS line you are paying for, including the ones nobody remembers ordering.
Classify.
Each line mapped to what depends on it: life safety, compliance, operations, or nothing at all.
Replace.
A prioritized migration plan with compliant modern alternatives, sequenced so nothing critical goes dark.
Plain old telephone service: the traditional copper analog phone lines that have carried voice and alarm signals for decades. Carriers are actively retiring this infrastructure nationwide.
Yes. Regulatory changes ended the requirement to maintain copper networks, and carriers are discontinuing service, raising prices, and letting repair times stretch as the infrastructure ages out.
Because the failure mode is not gradual. Lines get discontinuance notices, repairs stop being prioritized, and costs climb sharply. Life safety systems need a tested replacement in place before the line goes quiet, not after.
Purpose built POTS replacement solutions are engineered for life safety applications, including battery backup and supervised connections. The assessment identifies which solution fits each requirement at each site.
Ask us. For most organizations the assessment pays for itself in the billing errors and forgotten lines it finds. Call 254 772 3400 or use the form below.
Assess your risk.
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