Ditch the landline? What are the options?

cobrat
Fri, 11 Nov 2016 00:42:55 +0000

One concern some folks I’ve known have had with the switch to VOIP vs copper is the obsoleting of phone and fax equipment/faxmodems they still rely on for their home businesses/communications.

Especially considering when I was working a corporate IT gig a decade ago, one thing we had to check is to ensure no one plugs in an analog phone/fax machine/modem directly into the corporate digital phone lines as doing so could possibly cause them to burn out because of the voltage/wiring differences.

Not sure that’s still the case, but I still have some older neighbors and clients who would be mighty peeved if they find their analog phone/fax machine/fax modem on computer is effectively put out of commission because of the trend in replacing analog phone lines with digital/VOIP ones.