POTS Business Lines

Typical Applications:  Small business voice services--typically less than 10 lines

POTS stands for Plain Old Telephone Service.  These are regular analog residential or business phone lines that come into your home or office on traditional copper cable.  Features such as caller ID, call waiting, three-way calling, etc. can all be added to these types of phone lines.  The easiest way to understand this service is to think of the traditional land lines like you have in your home.

POTS phone lines are usually priced in three different ways.  First are your basic analog phone lines where you pay for each phone call.  Some areas have a local calling area built into the price, and some areas charge for each phone call on a per-minute or per-call basis.  The second package includes local and local toll calls.  These are typically all calls that are within about 25 miles from your location or Central Office.  Finally, the fastest growing types of POTS lines are the all-inclusive type.  These can give you unlimited local, local toll, and/or long distance. 

Deciding which type of phone line is best for you should be left to an expert consulting firm such as TelecomMedic.  We will take a look at your calling patterns and provide recommendations on which lines are best for your unique situation.  We find that people typically over spend on the most expensive all-inclusive lines, when a better option would be to split the long distance services to another carrier that can save companies significant money on a monthly basis.  This decision should be based upon actual usage, and is a calculation that the experts at TelecomMedic are happy to assist with.

Note that POTS lines are typically best for companies of eight employees or less, and for back-up emergency lines for larger systems.  For larger companies see PRI T1, Integrated T1, VoIP and SIP Trunking for telephony services that are better for larger companies.