Post #4848515 · Elektrine

2026-09-18 06:49 UTC

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.

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@froh42@lemmy.world 2026-09-18 07:27

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 all in all switching worked mostly fine.

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@rmuk@feddit.uk 2026-09-20 01:36

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.

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