Do You Still Have A Landline? Is It POTS? Wait, What’s POTS?

hey there it’s David H Lawrence the 17th
and I I’m sure that somewhere near you
you have one of these a mobile phone I’m
not so sure whether or not near you is
one of these a landline phone I thought
that I was one of the last people in the
world that had one of these beauties at
the very least one of the last people in
the world that had a Potts version of a
landline and I’ll get to that in just a
second P OTS and I found out that it’s
not as bad as I thought but it’s heading
in that direction and by bad I mean
change getting rid of something that is
something I’m used to not necessarily
bad but it just is what it is so that is
a chart of that was put together by
statista about the change of how many
mobile phones there are versus how many
landlines there are and it goes from
like around just past 2000 to the
present and you can I don’t even need to
share the numbers with you you can see
that there’s been a definite cross
happened around 2017 2018 where there
are now far more mobile phones than
there are landlines in our business it
feels like there’s even less landlines
than there are than there are mobile
phones but this is this is the general
population and by the way this chart was
commissioned by or created because of a
study commissioned by the CDC the
Centers for Disease Control and the
reason that they commissioned this study
is because they were concerned that
people would not be able to dial 911
during medical emergencies because
mobile phones weren’t capable of getting
the 911 system that’s changing it’s
almost completely changed over so that
you can do that with your phone not only
via a voice call but also via text
so everything’s kind of changing but
we’re losing a lot by giving up our
landlines we have a I have a fondness
for the quality and the stability of a
Potts landline and by the way Potts
stands for plain old telephone system as
opposed to VoIP or VoIP which is voice
over Internet Protocol potts is analog
it’s over copper wires it’s kind of hard
to hack and voice over IP is digital and
it’s not so hard to hack and it’s
becoming almost impossible to get pots
lines pots lines were the old like the
hundred twenty plus year old telephone
system that you would dial up you know
Martha and mount pilot and get through
to somebody over a copper wire and there
were many many copper wires going to the
phone company central office and then
you’d go out from there today it’s all
being done over the same lines that your
internet is provided to you over that
your television is provided to you over
your telephone is provided to you over
and even my phone I had to give up my
pots line if I wanted to get better
internet service in my condo because
there were as a limited number of lines
so I did reluctantly but the idea that
some people have never heard of a
landline younger people and some people
like me are kind of sad that landlines
are going by the wayside the problem is
mobile phones don’t sound as good as
landlines voice over IP sounds pretty
good it actually sounds almost
studio-quality not quite but it can
sound really really good in fact when
voice over IP was first created it kind
of startled people remember Vonage
remember when when voice over IP was
like declared illegal by some countries
because it got around their their phone
tariff regulations and the government
started losing money because people
weren’t using the regular phone system
they were making Skype calls and that’s
voice over IP for all intents and
purposes
but the problem is because more and more
people are using it the standards and
the quality of voice over IP is
gradually dropping and what I was about
to complete my thought with was when
voice over IP was first introduced it
was so much better than that
classic telephone quality that you hear
when you listen to the caller talk on a
talk-show that kind of very narrow range
frequency response between here’s a
geeky thing 300 Hertz and 3000 that’s
the that’s the frequency range of a
telephone of an old telephone but voice
over IP is filled with digital dropouts
and glitches and heterodyning and
fuzzing and god knows what it’ll get
better over time the technology will get
better over time but I just I really
miss the idea that that Potts lines are
getting harder and harder the phone
company doesn’t want to put them in the
phone company doesn’t want you to have
them so there you go I I don’t know
whether I I made any point here
whatsoever I guess I’m just you know sad
that that chart we just saw is such a
direct crossover and buh-bye to pots
lines within the next decade or so I
don’t know I don’t know what’s gonna
happen there who knows you still have a
pots line let me know in the comments
below do you still treasure your pots
line do you know how quality oriented it
is and how stable it is and how if your
internet goes out your pots line
telephone won’t go out right that’s
that’s an issue so leave me a comment
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