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How the FCC’s Auto-Grant Process Is Quietly Accelerating Copper Retirement

Carrier News, FCC, Network Transformation, POTS replacement / By Robert Kulewicz

Most coverage of copper retirement focuses on the big announcements, a carrier files to shut down service in a dozen states, a consumer group objects, a headline follows. The mechanism that actually decides how fast copper disappears gets far less attention, and it is the part enterprises most need to understand. Increasingly, copper discontinuance applications

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Copper Retirement Is No Longer One Carrier’s Story: AT&T, Verizon, Lumen, and Fidium Are All Filing at Once

Carrier News, FCC, POTS replacement / By Robert Kulewicz

For most of the past year, copper retirement has been told as an AT&T story, and increasingly as an AT&T versus California story. That framing is now out of date. As of August 2026, the country’s major incumbent carriers are filing to discontinue legacy copper service across dozens of states at the same time, covering

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POTS Replacement for Energy and Utilities: What Operators Need to Know

POTS, POTS replacement / By Justin Blake

No sector is more exposed to copper retirement than energy and utilities, and few are less prepared for it. A single electric, gas, or water utility can operate analog lines to thousands of locations: substations, pump stations, lift stations, well sites, storage tanks, regulator stations, and remote alarm points scattered across an entire service territory.

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POTS Replacement for Retail and Grocery Chains: What Every Multi-Location IT Team Needs to Know

POTS replacement / By Justin Blake

Retail and grocery IT teams are facing one of the most complex infrastructure transitions in recent memory. Traditional carriers are retiring copper-based POTS lines across the country, and the FCC’s 2026 copper retirement order has given those carriers the regulatory cover to move faster than most businesses are prepared for. Each store may have anywhere

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MarketSpark Earns FDNY Approval for Fire Alarm POTS Replacement

POTS, POTS replacement / By Robert Kulewicz

MarketSpark has earned FDNY approval for its fire alarm POTS replacement solution, receiving a Conditional Letter of Acceptance from the FDNY Bureau of Fire Prevention that recognizes MarketSpark as a Managed Facilities Voice Network (MFVN) under 2016 NFPA 72. The approval (Record ID 2025-TMFRCD-007414-VRNC) clears the way for MarketSpark’s equipment to transmit fire alarm signals

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POTS Replacement for Distribution Centers: Protecting Fire Panels, Gate Access, and Alarms Across Your Entire Footprint

POTS replacement / By Justin Blake

Distribution centers are among the most analog-line-dense facilities in the enterprise infrastructure portfolio. A single warehouse of 500,000 square feet may have a dozen or more fire alarm control panels, multiple security alarm zones, truck gate dialers at every dock entrance, freight elevator phones, dock office voice lines, and guard station communications. Every one of

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The Three Phases of POTS Replacement: How a Modernization Project Became a Deadline

Enterprise Systems, POTS replacement / By Jeff Gower

POTS replacement has been on enterprise roadmaps for years. What has changed is not the technology‚ it is the reason organizations act. Look across the last several years of copper migration projects and a clear pattern emerges. The work is the same: find the analog lines, figure out what is on them, replace them with

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POTS Replacement for Restaurants and Fast Food Chains: What Multi-Location Operators Need to Know

POTS replacement / By Justin Blake

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Partner Success Story: From Compliance Crisis to Connected Confidence

Partnerships, POTS replacement / By Robert Kulewicz

How NYC Property Managers Can Get Full Visibility Over Their Elevator Emergency Lines Brian Jeeuth, a Senior Account Manager at Verizon Business Group, came to MarketSpark with a problem he couldn’t solve alone. One of his customers, a compliance director at one of New York City’s largest affordable housing operators, was facing a serious gap

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POTS Replacement for Colleges and Universities: What Campus Leaders Need to Know

Network Transformation, POTS replacement, Uncategorized / By Justin Blake

A university campus is effectively a small city: hundreds of buildings constructed across a century, its own police department, its own utility plant, residence halls that function as high-occupancy housing, research facilities with irreplaceable assets, and a population of students whose families expect the institution to keep them safe. Running underneath all of it is

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