POTS Line Replacement

Copper phone lines are being shut off, and businesses that wait too long risk losing their phone numbers for good. If your alarms, elevators, fax machines, or gate phones still run on a traditional POTS line, act now, before a discontinuance notice leaves you scrambling. Need a new line? We also set up new POTS replacement lines for elevators, fire alarms, and other systems that require one.

How we help

Inventory Your Lines

We list every analog line on site and what it still serves — fire, elevator, fax, entry, terminals, and phones.

Compare Options

We compare leading POTS replacement providers for your use case, coverage, backup power, and budget — carrier-neutral.

Install & Port

We coordinate install, number porting, and cutover so critical devices stay online through the switch.

One Contact

After go-live, you have one contact for questions, adds, and moves — not a stack of carrier tickets.

Why copper lines are going away

POTS means Plain Old Telephone Service — the analog copper lines that carried business dial tone for decades. Every copper phone provider is retiring its copper network. The FCC allows them to discontinue legacy voice in defined areas once they file and customers are notified.

In Florida, that is already underway. AT&T, one of the largest, has authority to discontinue residential and business copper POTS in portions of certain wire centers on or after November 15, 2026 (FCC WC Docket 25-335). Lumen (CenturyLink) has asked to discontinue legacy voice in portions of many Florida cities on or after November 30, 2026. More filings cover additional areas and later dates.

Where copper stays for a while, prices often rise and repair gets slower. Waiting until a hard cutoff date leaves little room to test fire panels, elevators, and other life-safety lines.

Discontinuance covers portions of wire centers or named cities — not every address in Florida. We check your specific lines against current notices.

POTS Line Replacement — Your Choice Telecom & Technology

Devices that often still need a POTS-style line

Fire and burglar alarm panels
Elevator phones and emergency call boxes
Gate and door entry systems
Fax machines
Credit card / payment terminals
Analog modems and utility monitors
Plain analog desk phones

What still runs on POTS

Many buildings moved office calling to VoIP years ago but left specialty lines on copper. Those specialty lines are the ones most at risk when a carrier retires the cable to your site.

A good replacement keeps those devices working the way they do today — plug in, dial out, report to the monitoring center — without depending on aging copper.

Replacement options

Managed POTS replacement

On-site devices that look like a copper line to your alarm, elevator, or fax, and connect over fiber, Ethernet, and/or LTE with battery backup. Built for specialty and life-safety lines.

Hosted / cloud voice

Modern business phone service for people and offices. A strong fit when you are retiring desk sets or a key system, and can sit alongside specialty-line replacements.

Compliance & E911

Elevator, fire, and alarm lines have code and monitoring rules. We help you pick options designed for those use cases and confirm E911 and backup power needs with your vendors. Final acceptance rests with your AHJ, alarm company, and elevator contractor.

Why work with Your Choice

Your Choice Telecom & Technology is a carrier-neutral advisor. We compare leading POTS replacement providers for your locations, handle the paperwork and install coordination, and stay your single contact after the cutover. One relationship. Clear options. No hard sell on a single brand.

100+ Carriers. 1 Contact. Serving businesses across the Florida Panhandle and nationwide.

Ready to inventory your POTS lines?

Tell us how many analog lines you have and what they serve. We will map replacement options and a cutover plan.